Meet Karel Engliš (1880–1961), A Prominent Czech Economist, Logician, Politician and Scholar: Introduction and his Bibliography in Foreign Languages

Krištofóry, Tomáš (2025): Meet Karel Engliš (1880–1961), A Prominent Czech Economist, Logician, Politician and Scholar: Introduction and his Bibliography in Foreign Languages. Published in: Masaryk University Press No. https://doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.O280-0474-2023

Abstract

Do you want to know more about an economist who before Mises conceived of economics as a science of human action? Someone who at the same time was an ordoliberal sooner than Eucken? Someone who added politics to his many talents and who saved Czechoslovakia from hyperinflation then raging in Mises' Vienna, as well as in Budapest, Berlin and other major European cities? A Neoliberal deprived of his liberties by the Nazis and communists alike? Someone who then didn't give in to the dictatorship but fought for democracy with his mighty pen? Then feel free to read my publication titled Meet Karel Engliš (1880-1961), A Prominent Czech Economist, Logician and Scholar. Introduction and his Bibliography in Foreign Languages. The publication contains an international bibliography of the works of Karel Engliš, founder of Masaryk University, a prominent Czech economist whose work was also appreciated by representatives of the Austrian school such as L. von Mises, F. A. von Hayek and I. M. Kirzner. Karel Engliš was one of the most prominent figures in European economics in the interwar period, but after 1948 the communist regime banned his publishing, lecturing and foreign activities, and his books were withdrawn from library collections. An overview of his works in English, German, French and other languages, supplemented by links to online resources and secondary literature, provides a valuable basis for a new research of his work and significance. The aim of the publication is to renew international awareness of Engliš's teleological economics and to facilitate further research into his legacy.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Karel Engliš, teleology, praxeology, ordoliberalism, Czechoslovakia, Central Europe, Mises, Eucken, history of economics, Austrian school, Iron Curtain
• Subjects: A - General Economics and Teaching > A3 - Collective Works > A31 - Collected Writings of Individuals; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B1 - History of Economic Thought through 1925 > B13 - Neoclassical through 1925 (Austrian, Marshallian, Walrasian, Stockholm School); B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925 > B25 - Historical ; Institutional ; Evolutionary ; Austrian; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B3 - History of Economic Thought: Individuals > B31 - Individuals; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B4 - Economic Methodology > B41 - Economic Methodology; P - Economic Systems > P5 - Comparative Economic Systems > P50 - General

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