PART I: CARL MENGER: TOWARDS A NEW IMAGE OF THE FOUNDER Carl Menger's Liberalism Revisited; Y.Ikeda Carl Menger after 1871: His Quest for the Reality of 'Economic Man'; K.Yagi PART II: LIBERAL ASPECTS OF THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL: MAX WEBER AND LUJO BRENTANO Discoursing Freedom: Weber's Project; J.Kobayashi Max Weber and the 'New Economics"; K.Tribe The Historical School and the Making of Economic Science in Japan; T.Nishizawa PART III: SOME METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS The Transition from Menger to Wieser; R.Arena From Menger to Polanyi: Toward a Substantive Economic Theory; M.Cangiani A Note on Carl Menger's Problem Situation; K.Milford PART IV: DISSEMINATION OF THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS The Austrian School in the Interwar Period; H.Hagemann Involvement of Austrian émigré Economists in American; C.Nakayama PART V: TRANSITION OF THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL On Menger, Hayek and on the Concept of 'Verstehen'; K.Leube Theory of Knowledge and the Idea of Evolution; S.Egashira The Transformation of Hayek in the 1930s; M.Nishibe Methodenstreit and Thereafter; T.Hashimoto