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Involvement of an Austrian Émigré Economist in America

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In the interwar period, the Austrian School of economics neither did nor could stay in Austria; hence, most of its members emigrated, mainly to the United States. A precursory work on this emigration points out the economic and political reasons.

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  1. University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

    Harald Hagemann

  2. Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tamotsu Nishizawa

  3. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yukihiro Ikeda

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Nakayama, C. (2010). Involvement of an Austrian Émigré Economist in America. In: Hagemann, H., Nishizawa, T., Ikeda, Y. (eds) Austrian Economics in Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281615_12

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