František Čuhel

František Čuhel, également connu sous la forme germanisée Franz Cuhel

The science of the last forty years may not simply be ignored. Today one may no longer be satisfied with a cursory consideration of Menger and Böhm-Bawerk; one must also be familiar with Pareto and have read Cuhel and Strigl, not to mention the most recent works in this field.

Ludwig von Mises [1]

économiste tchèque de l’école autrichienne (1862-1914)

Il a contribué à la théorie autrichienne de la valeur et de l’ordinalité des préférences, il a notamment été le premier à critiquer la théorie des utilités cardinales et des comparaisons interpersonnelles d’utilité.

Rothbard parlera même de la « théorie Cuhel-Mises de l’utilité marginale ordinale ». Murray N. Rothbard, « Foreword to The Theory of Money and Credit by Mises », 1981.

• https://www.google.ch/webhp?q=%22cuhel-mises%22#safe=off&q=%22cuhel-mises%22
• Wikibéral, Franz Cuhel
• Josef Šíma, « Les Tchèques et les idées autrichiennes », in Histoire du libéralisme en Europe, éd. Philippe Nemo et Jean Petitot, PUF, Paris, 2006, p. 1270 .
• Jörg Guido Hülsmann, Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism, 2007, pp. 218-219.
• https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_%C4%8Cuhel
• https://cs.wikisource.org/wiki/Autor:Franti%C5%A1ek_%C4%8Cuhel
• http://aleph.nkp.cz/F/?ccl_term=wau=jk01021935+or+wkw=jk01021935&func=find-c&local_base=skc
• http://www.mises.cz/terralibera/2007_10_vol_8_no_7.pdf
• http://pcpe.libinst.cz/nppe/3_1/nppe3_1_3.pdf
• http://pcpe.libinst.cz/nppe/3_1/nppe3_1.pdf

Yet the more radical was the second stage, which grew as a natural conclusion of the previous one. If values are subjective, then it follows that objective measurement is impossible. They cannot be subjected to a truly “scientific” analysis (as in natural sciences). This radical conclusion was put forth by the important Czech economist Franz Čuhel (1907). His insights could be portrayed as deconstructivist for most value theories, for they attacked any price theory which was grounded in utility or value measurements. Čuhel’s sweeping investigation was immediately accepted by Mises as fundamentally sound, despite the fact that value measurements were used by the Austrian School representatives (Mises 1981, p. 54). Although Menger did not use them, his framework did not preclude such possibility. Böhm-Bawerk used utility measurements frequently in his writings. He was even criticized by Čuhel himself and admitted that he only believed in soft measurability of sensations.

Mateusz Machaj, Mises and Value Theory

Œuvres

• Zur Lehre von den Bedürfnissen: theoretische Untersuchungen über das Grenzgebiet der Ökonomik und der Psychologie, 1907

• K nauce o potřebách [ On the Theory of Needs ], 1907

• auteur de l’entrée « valeur » dans le grand dictionnaire tchèque de 1897 : « ... théorie autrichienne, ou théorie de la valeur marginale.... que nous considérons comme la plus correcte de toutes les théories de la valeur existantes... »