General introduction -- Portrait of an Austrian liberal : Max Menger's liberal position -- Carl Menger as journalist and tutor of Crown Prince -- Carl Menger's Grundsätze in the making -- Carl Menger and historicism in German economics -- Anonymous history in Austrian economic thought -- Alternative equilibrium vision in Austrian economics -- Karl Knies, Max Weber, and Austrians : a Heidelberg connection -- Determinateness and indeterminateness in Schumpeter's economic sociology : the origin of social evolution -- Evolutionist turn of the Marx-Weber problem.