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

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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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Introduction

Chapter 1: Rational Reconstruction of the German Historical School

Chapter 2: Adam Müller’s ‘Agronomische Briefe’

Chapter 3: A Lecture Notebook of Wilhelm Roscher with Special Reference to His Published Works

Chapter 4: Karl Knies’s Conception of Political Economy

Chapter 5: Lujo Brentano on the Compulsory Insurance System for Workers in Germany

Notes

Chapter 6: Anonymous History in Austrian Economic Thought

References

Chapter 7: Gustav Von Schmoller and Werner Sombart

Chapter 8: Max Weber and the Critical Succession of the German Historical School

Chapter 9: Joseph Schumpeter on the Relationship between Economics and Sociology from the Perspective of Doctrinal History

Chapter 10: Lujo Brentano, Alfred Marshall, and Tokuzo Fukuda

Chapter 11: The Impact of German Economic Thought on Japanese Economists before World War II

References

Chapter 12: Walter Eucken and Wilhelm Röpke

Chapter 13: The Economic Reconstruction Plan of Alfred Müller-Armack

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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")
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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Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: Introduction

1: The Limitations of General Theory

2: The Problem of Historical Specificity

Part II: The Nineteenth Century

3: Karl Marx and the Specificity of the Capitalist System

4: The Older Historical School in Germany

5: The Historical School in the British Isles

6: The Methodological Failure of the Older Historical School

7: Out of Austria

8: Alfred Marshall and the British Methodendiskurs

9: The Responses of the Younger Historical School in Germany

Part III: The Twentieth Century

10: Thorstein Veblen and the Foundations of Institutionalism

11: Early American Institutionalism and the Problem of Historical Specificity

12: The Theoretical Manifesto of John Commons

13: Talcott Parsons and the Ascent of A historical Sociology

14: Death and Counter-Revolution at the London School of Economics

15: John Maynard Keynes and His Declaration of a General Theory

16: The Triumph of Barren Universality

17: Institution Blindness and the End of History

Part IV: The Millennium

18: Are There Universals in Social and Economic Theory?

19: Property, Culture, Habits and Institutions

20: Exchange and Production

21: A Note on Social Formations and Levels of Abstraction

22: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Historical Problem

23: Invention is Helpless Without Tradition

Bibliography

Index
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The Practical Imagination: The German Sciences of State in the Nineteenth Century ("The Historical School" begins on p. 233)
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 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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Acknowledgments

Introduction: a Theoretical Framework

1: The Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Background: Classification

2: The French Revolutionary And Napoleonic Era, 1789-1815: Assimilation

3: The Sciences of State at Their Height, 1815-1840: Deliberation

4: A Period of Transition, 1840-1866: Variation

5: A Truncated Revival, 1866-1890: Organized Research and Charisma

6: The Wilhelminian Era, 1890-1914: Specialization and Clarification

Epilogue

Abbreviations

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Theoretical Economic Systems: A Comparative Analysis (Chap. 3 "Evolutionary Capitalism: German Historical Theory")
by Walter S. Buckingham Jr. 520 pgs.

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Part I: Introduction

1: Methodology For Studying Economic Systems

Part II: Theories of Capitalism

2: Competitive Capitalism: The English Classical And Neoclassical Theories

3: Evolutionary Capitalism: German Historical Theory

4: Evolutionary Capitalism: American Institutionalist Theory

5: Socialist Theories of Capitalism

6: Guided Capitalism: Keynesian Theory

7: Organized Capitalism: Monopoly Theories

8: Organized Capitalism: Oligopoly Theories

Part III: Theories of Socialism

9: Development Of Socialist Economic Theory

10: Theory of Liberal Socialism

11: Authoritarian Socialism: Theory of Central Planning

Part IV: Toward One Economic System

12: Evolution of Economic Institutions

13: Integration Of Theoretical Economic Systems

14: Emergence of A Universal Economic Order

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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")
by Henry William Spiegel. 868 pgs.

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PREFACE

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INTRODUCTION: AN OVERALL VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMICS

Chapter 1 from the Bible to Plato Founts of Western Civilization

Chapter 2: FROM ARISTOTLE TO THE FATHERS OF THE CHURCH

Chapter 3: MEDIEVAL ECONOMIC THOUGHT The Practice of Charity and the Avoidance of Sin

Chapter 4: From Unity to Diversity

Chapter 5: MERCANTILISM: Economic Warfare for National Gain

Chapter 6: BEYOND MERCANTILISM: The Rise of Quantitative Methods

Chapter 7: BEYOND MERCANTILISM: The Emergence of Liberal Ideas

Chapter 8: Nature's Circular Flow

Chapter 9: DISCORDANT CURRENTS OF THOUGHT: Galiani Hume Steuart

Chapter 10: ADAM SMITH'S ECONOMICS OF SELF-RELIANCE: The Philosophical Background

Chapter 11: THE DETAILS OF SMITH'S SYSTEM AND ITS REORGANIZATION BY SAY

Chapter 12: MALTHUS'S POPULATION DOCTRINE OF SELF-DENIAL

Chapter 13 Further Transformations of Smith's Economics: the Concern with Demand

Chapter 14: RICARDIAN ECONOMICS: Liberalism Enthroned

Chapter 15: FROM RICARDO TO MILL: Consolidation and Ferment

Chapter 16: JOHN STUART MILL: Liberalism Redeemed

Chapter 17: Baconian and Related Variants

Chapter 18: THE HEGELIAN VARIANT OF HISTORICAL ECONOMICS

Chapter 19 Socialism Before Marx: a Diversity of Views

Chapter 20: MARX: Salvation through Revolution

Chapter 21: SOCIALISM AFTER MARX: Reform Versus Revolution

Chapter 22: ECONOMICS RESTRUCTURED: Marginalism and Optimization 1. FORERUNNERS AND JEVONS

Chapter 23: ECONOMICS RESTRUCTURED: Marginalism and Optimization 2. THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL: ACCENT ON UTILITY

Chapter 24: 3. THE LAUSANNE SCHOOL: A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM

Chapter 25: ECONOMICS RESTRUCTURED: Marginalism and Optimization 4. THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL: TRANSCENDING SUPPLY AND DEMAND

Chapter 26 from Wicksell to Keynes: the Upsurge of Monetary and Income Analysis

Chapter 27: Orthodoxy and Dissent

Chapter 28: FROM ECONOMICS TO ECONOMETRICS

Chapter 29: AN EXPANDED PROFESSION IN SEARCH OF NEW FRONTIERS

Collateral Readings

COLLATERAL READINGS BY READINGS

Bibliographical Notes

THE LITERATURE OF THE 1980s AND EARLY 1990s

INDEX
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Economic Doctrine and Method: An Historical Sketch (Chap. 4 "The Historical School and the Theory of Marginal Utility")
by Joseph Schumpeter, A. Aris. 208 pgs.

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TRANSLATOR'S FOREWORD

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE

CONTENTS

I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMICS AS A SCIENCE

II: THE DISCOVERY OF THE CIRCULAR FLOW OF ECONOMIC LIFE THE PHYSIOCRATS. (ADAM SMITH)

III: THE CLASSICAL SYSTEM AND ITS OFFSHOOTS

IV: THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL AND THE THEORY OF MARGINAL UTILITY

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Readings in the History of Economic Thought (Part VI "British Historical School")
by S. Howard Patterson. 748 pgs.

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Preface

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List of Illustrations

Part I: Adam Smith and His Group

Preface

Selections from "The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, Publick Benefits"

Francis Hutcheson: (1694-1746)

Selections from "An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue"

Francis Hutcheson: Selections from "A System of Moral Philosophy"

Adam Smith Selections from "Theory of the Moral Sentiments"

Selections from "Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms": Delivered in the University of Glasgow as Reported by a Student in 1763

Jean Baptiste Say: (1767-1832)

Selections from "A Treatise on Political Economy"

Part II: The Malthusian Controversy

Benjamin Franklin: (1706-1790)

Selections from "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind and the Peopling of Countries"

Selections from "Reflections on the Augmentation of Wages Which Will Be Occasioned in Europe by the American Revolution"

William Godwin: (1756-1836)

Selections from "An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness"

Preface

Selections from "Population--An Enquiry Concerning the Power of Increase in the Numbers of Mankind, Being an Answer to Mr. Malthus's Essay on That Subject"

Preface

Thomas Robert Malthus: (1766-1834)

Preface

Selections from "Essay on Population" (first Edition)

Selections from "Essay on Population" (sixth Edition)

Selections from "Principles of Political Economy"

Selections from "Definitions in Political Economy"

Part III: Classicism and Utilitarianism

Jeremy Bentham: (1748-1832)

Jeremy Bentham: Selections from "An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation"

Selections from "Principles of the Civil Code"

Selections from "A Manual of Political Economy"

Selections from "An Archical Fallacies": Specimens of a Criticism of the French Declarations of Rights

David Ricardo: (1772-1823)

Selections from "The High Price of Bullion, a Proof of the Depreciation of Bank Notes"

Selections from "An Essay on the Influence of a Low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock" Shewing the Inexpediency of Restrictions on Importation with Remarks on Mr. Malthus's Two Last Publications: "An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent"; and "The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn"

James Mill: (1773-1836)

Selections from "Elements of Political Economy"

William Nassau Senior: (1790-1864)

Selections from "An Outline of Political Economy"

John Stuart Mill: (1806-1873)

Selections from "On Liberty"

Selections from "Utilitarianism"

John Elliott Cairnes: (1824-1875)

Part IV: Rise of Marginalism

Selections from "Theory of Political Economy": Chapter I. Introduction

Eugen Von Bohm-Bawerk: (1851-1914)

Part V: Nationalists and Optimists

Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

Concluding Observations

Selections from "Economic Sophisms"

Selections from Essays on Politic Economy

Henry Charles Carey: (1793-1879)

Selections from "Principles of Social Science"

Selection from "Manual of Social Science" Being a Condensation of the "Principles of Social Science" of H. C. Carey, Ll.D.

Preface

Robert Ellis Thompson: (1844-1924)

Selection from "Political Economy for High Schools and Academies"

Part VI: British Historical School

Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie: (1825?-1882)

Walter Bagehot: (1826-1877)

Arnold Toynbee: (1852-1983)

Selections from " the Industrial? Revolution of the Eighteenth Century in England"

Part VII: Social Reformers and Idealists

John Ruskin: (1819-1900)

Selection from Letters from "Fors Claviegera," Ii, Letter XXXVII

Part VIII: Rise of Socialism and Economic Radicalism

Selections from "The Social Destiny of Man" or "The Theory of the Flour Movements"

Pierre Joseph Proudhon: (1809-1865)

Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)

Selections from "Manifesto of the Communist Party"

Selections from "Das Kapital"

Part IX: Miscellaneous American Writers

Selections from "Progress and Poverty"

Francis A. Walker: (1840-1897)

Simon Nelson Patten: (1852-1922)

Selections from "The Premises of Political Economy"

Appendix: Popularizations of English Classical Economy

(mrs.) Jane Haldimand Marcet: (1769-1858)

Selections from "Conversations on Political Economy in Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained"

Harriet Martineau: (1802-1876)

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

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Preface

Table of Contents

A Note on the Authors

1: Toward a Systematic Classification of the Economic Sciences

NOTES

Preface

2: The Theory of Urban Ground Rent

NOTES

3: A Critical Examination of Current Doctrines Concerning Wage Rates and Unionism

NOTES

4: The Nationalization of Credit

Summation

5: The Place of Mathematical Reasoning in Economics

NOTES

6: A Letter to the Advocates of a Controlled Economy

7: The Doctrine of Original Sin and the Theory of the Elite in the Writings of Frédéric Le Play

NOTES

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Problems of Economics and Sociology (Book Two "The Historical Point of View in Economic Research")
by Carl Menger. 240 pgs.

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Translator's Preface

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Introduction

Preface

Book One: Economics as a Theoretical Science and Its Relationship to the Historical and Practical Economic Sciences

Chapter 1: The Various Aspects of Research In the Field of National Economy

Chapter 2: The Errors Which Result from the Failure to Recognize The Formal Nature of Theoretical Economics

Chapter 3: The Special Nature of Theoretical Knowledge In the Field of Economy Does Not Invalidate The Character of Economics as a Theoretical Science

Chapter 4: The Two Basic Orientations of Theoretical Research In General and of That in the Field Of Economy in Particular

Chapter 5: The Relationship of the Exact Orientation Of Research in the Field of the Social Sciences To the Realistic-Empirical Orientation

Chapter 6: The Theory That Economic Phenomena Are to Be Treated Only in Connection with the Total Social And Political Development of Nations

Chapter 7: The Dogma of Self-Interest in Theoretical Economics And Its Position in Relation to the Theoretical Problems Of the Latter

Chapter 8: The Charge of "Atomism" in Theoretical Economics

Book Two: The Historical Point of View in Economic Research

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Historical Point of View in Theoretical Economics

Chapter 2: The Pseudo-Historical Orientations Of Research in Theoretical Economics

Chapter 3: The Historical Point of View in the Practical Sciences of Economy

Book Three: The Organic Understanding of Social Phenomena

Chapter 1: The Analogy Between Social Phenomena And Natural Organisms: Its Limits, and The Methodological Points of View For Social Research Resulting Therefrom

Chapter 2: The Theoretical Understanding of Those Social Phe Nomena Which Are Not a Product of Agreement Or Of Positive Legislation, but Are Unintended Results Of Historical Development

Book Four: The Development of the Idea of a Historical Treatment of Political Economy

Chapter 1: That the Basic Notions of the Historical School Of German Economists Have Long Been Known In Political Science

Chapter 2: The Historical School of German Economists Has Failed to Recognize the Decisive Reform Thought Of The Historical School of Jurists and Only Through Mis Understanding Considers Itself a Historical School In The Sense of the Latter

Chapter 3: The Origin and Development of the Historical School Of German Economists

Appendix I The Nature of National Economy

Appendix II: The Concepts of Theoretical Economics And the Nature of Its Laws

Appendix III: The Relationship of the Practical Sciences Of National Economy to Economic Practice And to Theoretical Economics

Appendix IV: The Terminology and the Classification Of the Economic Sciences

Appendix V: In the Realm of Human Phenomena Exact Laws (so-Called "Laws of Nature") Can Be Established Under the Same Formal Presuppositions as in The Realm of Natural Phenomena

Appendix VI: The Starting Point and the Goal of All Human Economy Are Strictly Determined

Appendix VII: The Opinion Ascribed to Aristotle That the State Is an Original Phenomenon Given Simultaneously With the Existence of Man

Appendix VIII: The "Organic" Origin of Law and the Exact Understanding Thereof

Appendix IX: The So-Called Ethical Orientation Of Political Economy
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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)
by J. C. B. Mohr. 175 pgs.

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VerÖffentlichungen Der List Gesellschaft E.V. Band 2

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Bibliography of Abbott Payson Usher

An Introductory Note

I. the German Design for Social History

Some Heirs of Gustav Von Schmoller

Sombart and the German Approach

Ii. Social Historians: Ancient and Medieval

Michael I. Rostovtzeff

Marc Bloch

Charles Verlinden

Iii. Toward an Economic History of Modern Times

Henri SÉe

Eli F. Heckscher

John H. Clapham

Abbott Payson Usher

Nachwort

Index

List Society (list Gesellschaft E.V.)

Kyklos International Review for Social Sciences
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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")
by Lewis H. Haney. 678 pgs.

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Preface to the First Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Outline of Table of Contents

Table of Contents

A. General Introduction

Chapter I the Nature and Importance of the History of Economic Thought

Chapter II the Origin and Tardy Development of Economic Thought

B. Economic Thought Before the Science of Economics

Chapter III Oriental Economic Thought, Especially the Concepts of the Hebrews and Hindus

Chapter V the Economic Thought of the Romans

Appendix to Chapter V

Chapter VI the Middle Ages

Chapter VII Mercantilism

Appendix to Chapter VII

Chapter VIII Earlier German Mercantilists and Kameralists

C. the Evolution of Economics as a Science

Chapter IX the Physiocrats and the Revolution in Social Philosophy

Chapter X Adam Smith with His Immediate Predecessors and the Revolution in Industry

Chapter XI Malthus and the Theory of Population

Chapter XII Ricardo and the Theory of Distribution, Especially the Rent Doctrine

Chapter XIV Bastiat and the French Optimists

Chapter XV Senior and the Abstinence Theory

Chapter XVI Say, Rau, and Other Chief Expositors in Germany and France

Chapter XVII Von ThÜnen and the Isolated State

Chapter XX MÜller, List, and Carey: the Early Nationalists

Chapter XXI Early Nineteenth-Century Socialism

Chapter XXII: John Stuart Mill

Chapter XXIII the Founders of "Scientific" Socialism in Germany

Chapter XXIV the Advocates of a Narrow Exchange-Value Economics: Criticism of the Scope of Classical Economics

Chapter XXVI the German Historical School

Chapter XXVII Lauderdale and Hermann: Early Criticism of the Theory of Capital, Profits, and Value

Chapter XXIX Earlier Developments in the Marginal Utility Concept: Gossen, Jevons, and Walras

Chapter XXXI Economic Thought in Germany and Italy During the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter XXXII Economic Thought in England and France in the Latter Part of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter XXXIII Economic Thought in the United States During the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century

Chapter XXXIV Conclusion

Bibliographical Notes

Index of Names

General Index
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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"
by Esther Kingston-Mann. 301 pgs.

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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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In Search of the True West: Culture, Economics, and Problems of Russian Development

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Preface

In Search of the True West

Introduction

Chapter One: England, France, and Germany

Chapter Two: Progress in the Age of Enlightenment

Chapter Three: Support or Challenge to the Status Quo?

Chapter Four: The Laws of History, Economics, and Human Progress

Chapter Five: Russian Historical Economics

Chapter Six: The Emergence of Orthodox Marxism

Chapter Seven: England, Denmark, and Germany

Chapter Eight: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Model for Progress and Development

Chapter Nine: Notes toward a Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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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")
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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1: Economic Thought and Policy in Nineteenth-Century Less Developed Europe

2: Economic Theory and Economic Development in Denmark, 1848-1914

3: The Emergence of an Independent Norwegian Economic Policy

4: The Influence of the German Historical School in Finnish Economic Thought Around the Turn of the Century

5: B.N. Chicherin

6: Liberal Ideas and Slavonic Community

7: Resisting Liberalism

8: Ottoman Economic Thought and Economic Policy in Transition

Notes

9: Aspects of Economic Thought and Policy in Serbia, 1850-1900

Notes

10: Economic Thought and Monetary Policy in Nineteenth-Century Greece

11: Political Economy in Italy

Notes

References

12: How Are We to Become like Them?

Notes

13: Friedrich List and Oliveira Marreca

14: The Western Periphery

Notes

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The Laws of History ("The Historical School of Economics" begins on p. 114)
by Graeme Donald Snooks. 294 pgs.

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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.

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Preface

1: The Eternal and the Ephemeral

Part I: The Law-Seekers

2: What Are Laws, and Where Can We Find Them?

3: Metaphysical Historicism from Hesiod to Toynbee

4: Positive Historicism from Comte to Rostow

5: The Poverty or Perversion of Historicism?

6: If History Has Laws, Why Haven’t They Been Discovered?

Part II: The Laws

7: If History Has Laws, How Would We Recognize Them?

8: The Laws of Societal Dynamics

9: The Laws of Historical Change

10: The Laws of Institutional Change

11: The Hidden Wealth of Historicism

Notes

Glossary of New Terms and Concepts

References

Index

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