================= HES POSTING ================= Hi, I do not know anything about an influence of Tolstoy on Menger but I found something about the relationship between Tolstoy and Friedrich von Wieser. Maybe it will help you: "Herbert Spencer's The Study of Sociology in conjunction with Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace had such a strong impact on him, however, that he definitely abandoned his youthful preoccupation with history and became intensely involved with social phenomena." Hayek, Friedrich August von (1926/1992): Friedrich von Wieser. In: Klein, Peter G. (1992): The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek. Volume IV. London. P. 110. Jan Pieter Schulz [log in to unmask] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]