Projektnummer

0056531

Zusammenfassung

Around 1900, German and Austrian economists began to predict a coming world where political sovereignty was weakened by international flows of trade and finance and the autonomy of nations and empires was undermined by something that they called "the world economy" (die Weltwirtschaft), coining a term that would not appear in English or other European languages for decades. This project follows this group of economists from Ludwig von Mises's circle in Vienna and Bernhard Harms's Institute for World Economy in Kiel, plucked from relative obscurity by the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1...