TY - EJOUR A1 - Campagnolo, Gilles A1 - Tosi, Gilbert TI - Organic Views on Institutions: Has Carl Menger Anticipated Complex Adaptive Systems? - The Case of Money T2 - Revue d’histoire de la pensée économique 2016 – 2, n° 2. varia JO - Revue d’histoire de la pensée économique (ISSN 2495-991X), 2, 2016 – 2 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06350-6.p.0041 SN - 2495-991X SP - 41 EP - 71 AB - For the founder of Austrian economics, Carl Menger (1840-1921), many social institutions are “organic” in origin, not voluntarily created (not “pragmatic”). Today, they may be regarded as complex adaptive systems, pieces of evidence of evolutionism. Money (as Menger sees it) fits such an explanation and bears witness to emerging socio-economic phenomena. We regard present-day evolutionary systems, based upon three principles (variation, interaction and selection) as anticipated by Menger. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/12/07 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - Austrian school, adaptive complex systems, epistemology, evolutionism, Friedrich Hayek, money, organicist institutions LA - fre UR - https://shop.staging.classiques-garnier.net/revue-d-histoire-de-la-pensee-economique-2016-2-n-2-varia-organic-views-on-institutions-has-carl-menger-anticipated-complex-adaptive-systems.html Y2 - 2025/12/06 ER -