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The German Historical School: The Historical and Ethical Approach to Economics » Read Now
by Yuichi Shionoya. 224 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

This text traces the development and transformation of the school, covering its leading figures such as Adam Muller, Wilhelm Roscher, Karl Knies and Lujo Brentano.
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How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science (Part II "The Nineteenth Century: The German Historical School and Its Impact") » Read Now
by Geoffrey M. Hodgson. 425 pgs.

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This work questions the tendency of economic method to try and explain all economic phenomena by using the same catch-all theories and dealing in universal truths. It argues that theory has to take account of historical context.
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The Practical Imagination: The German Sciences of State in the Nineteenth Century ("The Historical School" begins on p. 233) » Read Now
by David F. Lindenfeld. 382 pgs.

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Drawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, David Lindenfeld illuminates the practical imagination as it was exhibited in the transformation of the political and social sciences during the changing conditions of nineteenth-century Germany. Using a wealth of information from state and university...
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Drawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, David Lindenfeld illuminates the practical imagination as it was exhibited in the transformation of the political and social sciences during the changing conditions of nineteenth-century Germany. Using a wealth of information from state and university archives, private correspondence, and a survey of lecture offerings in German universities, Lindenfeld examines the original group of learned disciplines which originated in eighteenth-century Germany as a curriculum to train state officials in the administration and reform of society and which included economics, statistics, politics, public administration, finance, and state law, as well as agriculture, forestry, and mining. He explores the ways in which some systems of knowledge became extinct, and how new ones came into existence, while other migrated to different subject areas. Lindenfeld argues that these sciences of state developed a technique of deliberation on practical issues such as tax policy and welfare, that serves as a model for contemporary administrations.
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Theoretical Economic Systems: A Comparative Analysis (Chap. 3 "Evolutionary Capitalism: German Historical Theory") » Read Now
by Walter S. Buckingham Jr. 520 pgs.

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...of applied economics and practical...expedients of political feasibility...the German historical school, the Fabian...the German historical school arose that...reconstruct...
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The Growth of Economic Thought (Chap. 17 "Interludes of Historical Economics: Baconian and Related Variants" and Chap. 18 "The Hegelian Variant of Historical Economics") » Read Now
by Henry William Spiegel. 868 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Scandinavian Schools. The third...transformation of economics into econometrics...Interludes of Historical Economics...Variant of Historical Economics 410...A Diversity of...
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Economic Doctrine and Method: An Historical Sketch (Chap. 4 "The Historical School and the Theory of Marginal Utility") » Read Now
by Joseph Schumpeter, A. Aris. 208 pgs.

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...of German Economics also affords...history of doctrine...authors and schools. Of these...done to the historical evolution...IV The Historical School and the Theory of...
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Readings in the History of Economic Thought (Part VI "British Historical School") » Read Now
by S. Howard Patterson. 748 pgs.

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Essays in European Economic Thought (Chap. 1 "Toward a Systematic Classification of the Economic Sciences") » Read Now
by Louise Sommer. 232 pgs.

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...and Applied Economics 4 It...insufficiency of the Historical School that hampers...and applied economics. 11 Every variety of positivism...economists of the Historical...
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Problems of Economics and Sociology (Book Two "The Historical Point of View in Economic Research") » Read Now
by Carl Menger. 240 pgs.

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...when the historical school of German economics is considered...historical school of jurists wants...adherents of the historical method in economics must of...
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Architects and Craftsmen in History ("Sombart and the German Approach" begins on p. 41 and "Some Heirs of Gustav Von Schmoller" begins on p. 41) » Read Now
by J. C. B. Mohr. 175 pgs.

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History of Economic Thought: A Critical Account of the Origin and Development of the Economic Theories of the Leading Thinkers in the Leading Nations (Chap. 26 "The German Historical School") » Read Now
by Lewis H. Haney. 678 pgs.

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In Search of the True West: Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian Development (Chap. Five "Intersections of Western and Russian Culture: Russian Historical Economics" » Read Now
by Esther Kingston-Mann. 301 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues of cultural borrowing, educated Russians searched for Western nations, ideas, and social groups that...
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This ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues of cultural borrowing, educated Russians searched for Western nations, ideas, and social groups that embodied universal economic truths applicable to their own country. Esther Kingston-Mann describes Russian Westernization--which emphasized German as well as Anglo-U.S. economics--while she raises important questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined.
This is the first historical account of the significant role played by Russian social scientists in nineteenth-century Western economic and social thought. In an era of rapid Western colonial expansion, the Russian quest for the "right" Western economic model became more urgent: Was Russia condemned to the fate of India if it did not become an England? In the 1900s, Russian liberal economists emphasized cultural difference and historical context, while Marxists and prerevolutionary government reformers declared that inexorable economic laws doomed peasants and their "medieval" communities. On the eve of 1917, both the tsarist regime and its leading critics agreed that Russia must choose between Western-style progress or "feudal" stagnation. And when peasants and communes survived until Stalin's time, he mercilessly destroyed them in the name of progress. Today Russia's painful modernizing traditions shape the policies of contemporary reformers, who seem as certain as their predecessors that economic progress requires wholesale obliteration of the past.
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Economic Thought and Policy in Less Developed Europe: The Nineteenth Century (Chap. 4 "The Influence of the German Historical School in Finnish Economic Thought around the Turn of the Century") » Read Now
by Maria Eugénia Mata, Michalis Psalidopoulos. 276 pgs.

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These essays consider the process of dissemination of economic ideas among Europe's less developed countries and regions. They also examine economic thought and policy at different times and places in Europe during the 19th century.
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The Laws of History ("The Historical School of Economics" begins on p. 114) » Read Now
by Graeme Donald Snooks. 294 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Building on his previous work in The Dynamic Society and The Ephemeral Civilization, Graeme Donald Snooks lays bare the forces driving human society from its earliest beginnings to its present stage of evolution and examines why previous attempts to discern these laws have failed.