The Nationalökonomische Gesellschaft (NOeG) was founded in June 1918 by a
group of young scholars, mostly based in Vienna, as a forum for theoretical debate.
Despite the prominent economists involved (e.g. Schumpeter, Mises, Mayer, Spann,
Amonn) its activities soon petered out. The relaunch of the NOeG in 1927 originated
from the necessity of the two strands of the Austrian school, led by Mayer
and Mises, to find some tolerable arrangement; Spann and economists outside the
University of Vienna were excluded. Around 1930 the NOeG and Vienna in general
proved an attraction for many well-known economists from abroad, and many
of the papers presented were printed and cited in first-rate journals. Yet with the
emigration of many Austrian economists during the 1930s the NOeG mirrored the
general decline of academic economics in Austria and the number and quality of the
papers presented decreased. After the Anschluss 1938 the NOeG and its president
Mayer were quick in dismissing its Jewish members and in the following adhered
to a strategy of inconspicuous adaptation; its formal existence did not lead to any
substantial activities. The post-war period was characterized by the restoration of
the situation before 1938, with Mayer's continued presence at the university as well
as at the NOeG a case in point. In the end, it led Austrian academic economics into a
state of international isolation and "provincialization" much lamented by the émigré
economists of the Austrian school.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:7008 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Klausinger, Hansjörg |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Source Sets | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
| Relation | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10663-019-09439-4, https://link.springer.com/, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7724-1422, http://epub.wu.ac.at/7008/ |
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