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Friedrich von Wieser (1851-1926)

Friedrich von Wieser (1851-1926)  
[Created: 12 Oct. 2022
[Updated: April 2, 2024 ]

Introduction

Biographical information from Wikipedia:

"Friedrich Freiherr von Wieser (1851-1926) was an early (so-called "first generation") economist of the Austrian School of economics. Born in Vienna, the son of Privy Councillor Leopold von Wieser, a high official in the war ministry, he first trained in sociology and law. In 1872, the year he took his degree, he encountered Austrian-school founder Carl Menger's Grundsätze and switched his interest to economic theory.[2] Wieser held posts at the universities of Vienna and Prague until succeeding Menger in Vienna in 1903, where along with his brother-in-law Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk he shaped the next generation of Austrian economists including Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter in the late 1890s and early 20th century. He was the Austrian Minister of Commerce from August 30, 1917, to November 11, 1918."

Texts in the Collection

Friedrich von Wieser, Recht und Macht. Sechs Vorträge (Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1910).

The volume contains a Foreword and six lectures:

  1. Äussere und innere Mächte
  2. Der Ursprung der gesellschaftlichen Mächte
  3. Die Bewegungstendenzen der Geschichte
  4. Recht (Exkurs. Unser Verfassungsrecht)
  5. Die materialistische Geschichtsauffassung
  6. Freiheit

 

Friedrich von Wieser, Das Gesetz der Macht (Wien: Verlag von Julius Springer, 1926).