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Source link: http://archive.mises.org/16215/vienna-before-the-austrian-school/

Vienna before the Austrian School

March 25, 2011 by

To our traveler of 1859, Carl Menger von Wolfensgrün (1840–1921), the subsequent founder of the Austrian School of economics, the cityscape still appeared as that of “old Vienna”: enclosed on three sides by a city wall and moat, and naturally confined by an arm of the Danube on its eastern side.

FULL ARTICLE by Eugen-Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler

{ 3 comments }

Rockne Johnson March 25, 2011 at 11:42 am

“In 1857, in one of the first censuses in Europe, …” Surely this is incorrect. The first census in Denmark naming all individuals was in 1787. That for England was 1841. That for the USA was 1850.

X March 26, 2011 at 2:25 pm

“in one of the first”
“one of the”

It did not say “in the first”.

A. Viirlaid March 28, 2011 at 12:16 pm

OK, let’s quibble…

Quote below is from WIKI entry “Census in the United Kingdom” at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_in_the_United_Kingdom

In the 7th century, Dál Riata (parts of what is now Scotland and Northern Ireland) was the first territory in what is now the UK to conduct a census, with what was called the “Tradition of the Men of Alba” (Senchus fer n-Alban).

England took its first Census when the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086 for tax purposes.

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