Universals and the 1Metbdenstreit: a Re-examination of Carl Menger’s Conception of Economics as an Exact Science

1. In the latter half of the 19th century, economic thought in the German-speaking world was dominated, both intellectually and academically, by the so-called historical school, from Wilhelm Roscher to Gustav Schmoller and others. In 1871, the Austrian Carl Menger published his Grun&tze de