Richard Sturn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1059461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Sturn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Sturn |
| SIGNATURE | STURN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Graz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8479-0163 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Irrepressible and indispensable? Contemporary history of economic thought and its aporias
In recent decades, HET developed into an autonomous subject. While HET has its tools, methods, and journals like other serious subjects, multifarious entanglements render the perspective of “normal science” elusive. HET accommodates different approaches and correlates with varying meta-historic rationales, rendering it a multi-faceted and inherently difficult subject inevitably dealing with ambivalences of interfaces between levels and discipline…
“The Greatest and Noblest of all Characters”
Adam Smith’s science of the legislator and the “virtues of the statesman” are understood as a kind of higher order-liberalism, coming close to what Colander and Freedman call “the liberal methodology” pertinent to the role of economics in policy-making. Evolving socio-economic heterogeneities, the dynamism of specialisation and politics require a kind of dynamic, open, and contextual second-best approach , based on acknowledging the limits of sys…
Mapping the history of public economics in the twentieth century
The papers in this issue deal with the transformation from public finance to public economics at a theoretical and philosophical level in the mid-twentieth century. Our introduction situates these papers within their intellectual context. To do so, we provide a broad outline of the trajectory of the field beginning with the transformation of welfare economics. Acknowledging the structuring role of Richard Musgrave and James Buchanan for the field…
From public finance to public economics
The emergence of the expression of 'public economics' marked an epistemological rupture in the economic discourse about the state.The local problems and national intellectual traditions that had shaped the centuries-old field of public finance were cast aside in favour of new problems and new methods.From the 1970s onward, public economics became an integrated international field defined by a methodological approach embodied in general equilibriu…
Introduction
International audience
Ideology, power, and progress
The complex co-evolution of economics as a scientific discipline is accompanied by two dilemmas which are reflecting ambivalent effects of two ideologies: economism and scientism. Economics may go wrong when certain tendencies occasioned by those inevitable “ideological” influences are ignored. Pertinent problems include pseudo-rationalist conceptions of policy advice and the failure to deal with the limited status of partial analysis and abstrac…
On the modernity of Carl Menger
From different perspectives regarding the History of Economic Thought, the contributions to this roundtable highlight different aspects and levels of the modernity of the founder of the Austrian School of Economics, and of his importance for the development of social theory and the discipline of scientific economics. This is complemented by discussions of ambiguities and multiple meanings of modernity
The Age of Fragmentation
Book Review| April 01 2021 The Age of Fragmentation: A History of Contemporary Economic Thought by Alessandro Roncaglia The Age of Fragmentation: A History of Contemporary Economic Thought. By Roncaglia, Alessandro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 442pp. $39.99. Richard Sturn Richard Sturn Graz University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (2): 363–366. https://doi.org/10…
Ludwig Heinrich von Mises (1881–1973)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Adolph Heinrich Gotthilf Wagner (1835–1917)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Richard Abel Musgrave (1910–2007)
Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Division of Labor
Paradigmenwechsel in der Familienpolitik
Volenti Non Fit Iniuria? Contract Freedom and Labor Market Institutions
Various writers point out that accepting the terms of a contract does not imply consent to the background conditions of this contract. This is an important critical insight allowing for a critical perspective on the principle of free contract, according to which the state should not interfere with what adult agents contractually agree upon. In this paper I argue that the practical relevance of this critical insight depends on the availability of …
Macrojustice
Who Pays for Higher Education? A Note on the Neglected Role of Income Tax Progression
Do university graduates pay back the public subsidies which they received as students through higher income taxes? Assuming a life cycle version of the ability-to-pay-principle of taxation as the normative foundation, we suggest the »foregone smoothing benefit« concept (FSB) in order to obtain a meaningful answer to this question in the context of a system with progressive income taxation. The FSB-concept abstracts from tax-base-broadening-effect…
Basic Income in Complex Worlds
This paper is about difficulties in the normative justification of an unconditional basic income-difficulties which are related to the scope of egalitarian justice as well as the dimension(s) of the equalisandum. More specifically, it is contended that Philippe Van Parijs’s justification derived from the principle of Maximin real freedom runs into problems in environments in which scarcity does not offer a conceptual basis for a satisfactory acco…
Volenti Non Fit Iniuria? Contract Freedom and Labor Market Institutions
Various writers point out that accepting the terms of a contract does not imply consent to the background conditions of this contract. This is an important critical insight allowing for a critical perspective on the principle of free contract, according to which the state should not interfere with what adult agents contractually agree upon. In this paper I argue that the practical relevance of this critical insight depends on the availability of …
Who Pays for Higher Education? A Note on the Neglected Role of Income Tax Progression
Do university graduates pay back the public subsidies which they received as students through higher income taxes? Assuming a life cycle version of the ability-to-pay-principle of taxation as the normative foundation, we suggest the »foregone smoothing benefit« concept (FSB) in order to obtain a meaningful answer to this question in the context of a system with progressive income taxation. The FSB-concept abstracts from tax-base-broadening-effect…
Basic Income in Complex Worlds
This paper is about difficulties in the normative justification of an unconditional basic income-difficulties which are related to the scope of egalitarian justice as well as the dimension(s) of the equalisandum. More specifically, it is contended that Philippe Van Parijs’s justification derived from the principle of Maximin real freedom runs into problems in environments in which scarcity does not offer a conceptual basis for a satisfactory acco…
Macrojustice
Volenti Non Fit Iniuria? Contract Freedom and Labor Market Institutions
Various writers point out that accepting the terms of a contract does not imply consent to the background conditions of this contract. This is an important critical insight allowing for a critical perspective on the principle of free contract, according to which the state should not interfere with what adult agents contractually agree upon. In this paper I argue that the practical relevance of this critical insight depends on the availability of …
Paradigmenwechsel in der Familienpolitik
Division of Labor
Ludwig Heinrich von Mises (1881–1973)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Adolph Heinrich Gotthilf Wagner (1835–1917)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
Richard Abel Musgrave (1910–2007)
Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926)
Volume I contains original biographical profiles of many of the most important and influential economists from the seventeenth century to the present day. These inform the reader about their lives, works and impact on the further development of the discipline. The emphasis is on their lasting contributions to our understanding of the complex system known as the economy. The entries also shed light on the means and ways in which the functioning of…
The Age of Fragmentation
Book Review| April 01 2021 The Age of Fragmentation: A History of Contemporary Economic Thought by Alessandro Roncaglia The Age of Fragmentation: A History of Contemporary Economic Thought. By Roncaglia, Alessandro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 442pp. $39.99. Richard Sturn Richard Sturn Graz University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2021) 53 (2): 363–366. https://doi.org/10…
Introduction
International audience
Ideology, power, and progress
The complex co-evolution of economics as a scientific discipline is accompanied by two dilemmas which are reflecting ambivalent effects of two ideologies: economism and scientism. Economics may go wrong when certain tendencies occasioned by those inevitable “ideological” influences are ignored. Pertinent problems include pseudo-rationalist conceptions of policy advice and the failure to deal with the limited status of partial analysis and abstrac…
On the modernity of Carl Menger
From different perspectives regarding the History of Economic Thought, the contributions to this roundtable highlight different aspects and levels of the modernity of the founder of the Austrian School of Economics, and of his importance for the development of social theory and the discipline of scientific economics. This is complemented by discussions of ambiguities and multiple meanings of modernity
“The Greatest and Noblest of all Characters”
Adam Smith’s science of the legislator and the “virtues of the statesman” are understood as a kind of higher order-liberalism, coming close to what Colander and Freedman call “the liberal methodology” pertinent to the role of economics in policy-making. Evolving socio-economic heterogeneities, the dynamism of specialisation and politics require a kind of dynamic, open, and contextual second-best approach , based on acknowledging the limits of sys…
Mapping the history of public economics in the twentieth century
The papers in this issue deal with the transformation from public finance to public economics at a theoretical and philosophical level in the mid-twentieth century. Our introduction situates these papers within their intellectual context. To do so, we provide a broad outline of the trajectory of the field beginning with the transformation of welfare economics. Acknowledging the structuring role of Richard Musgrave and James Buchanan for the field…
From public finance to public economics
The emergence of the expression of 'public economics' marked an epistemological rupture in the economic discourse about the state.The local problems and national intellectual traditions that had shaped the centuries-old field of public finance were cast aside in favour of new problems and new methods.From the 1970s onward, public economics became an integrated international field defined by a methodological approach embodied in general equilibriu…
Irrepressible and indispensable? Contemporary history of economic thought and its aporias
In recent decades, HET developed into an autonomous subject. While HET has its tools, methods, and journals like other serious subjects, multifarious entanglements render the perspective of “normal science” elusive. HET accommodates different approaches and correlates with varying meta-historic rationales, rendering it a multi-faceted and inherently difficult subject inevitably dealing with ambivalences of interfaces between levels and discipline…
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