Social Sciences
The Homecoming of the Austrian School of Economics after WWII
October 2, 2019
By Janek Wasserman The story of the emigration of the Austrian School of Economics from Vienna to the US in the 1930s and 1940s is relatively well-known. Less discussed are the various ways that the Austrian émigrés attempted to recreate their tradition in Austria after World War II. These attempts at restoration demonstrate that migration was…
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July 2, 2019
By Elizabeth Ann Danto At a time when Vienna was to the Western world what New York is today, Louise Tiffany was reading Freud’s newly-published Interpretation of Dreams in German. Twenty years later, Dorothy, the daughter of Louise and Louis Comfort Tiffany, would take her own four children from New York to Vienna for safety…
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