Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/213009 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CHOPE Working Paper No. 2020-01
Publisher: 
Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy (CHOPE), Durham, NC
Abstract: 
During the last years of his life, the mathematician Karl Menger worked on a biography of his father, the economist and founder of the Austrian School of Economics, Carl Menger. The younger Menger never finished the work. While working in the Menger collections at Duke University's David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, we discovered draft chapters of the biography, a valuable source of information given that relatively little is known about Carl Menger's life nearly a hundred years after his death. The unfinished biography covers Carl Menger's family background and his life through early 1889. In this article, we discuss the biography and the most valuable new insights it provides into Carl Menger's life, including Carl Menger's family, his childhood, his student years, his time working as a journalist and newspaper editor, his early scientific career, and his relationship with Crown Prince Rudolf.
Subjects: 
Carl Menger
Karl Menger
Austrian Economics
Liberalism in Austria
Crown Prince Rudolf
Anton Menger
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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