Unexplored dimensions: Karl Menger on economics and philosophy (1923-1938)
In: Advances in Austrian economics 12
Karl Menger (1902-1985) was the mathematician son of the famous economist Carl Menger. He was professor of geometry at the University of Vienna from 1927 to 1938. During that period, which was crucial from an historical and philosophical point of view, he joined the Vienna Circle and founded his Mathematical Colloquium. The drafts of his volume are parts of the Karl Menger papers. In this resource there is his whole archive, that includes the notes Menger composed for his reminiscences. Checking those notes and comparing them with the published book, it is clear that many parts of his recollec