The Soul of the German Historical School

This volume is a collection of my essays on Gustav von Schmoller (1838 1917), Max Weber (18641920), and Joseph Alois Schumpeter (18831950), published during the past fifteen years. These three intellectual giants are connected with the German Historical School of Economics in different ways. In the history of economics, the German Historical School has been described as a heterodox group of economic researchers who flourished in the Germ- speaking world throughout the nineteenth century. The definition of a school is always problematic. Even if the core of a certain idea were identified in the continuous and discontinuous process of the filiation and ramification of thought, it is still possible to trace its predecessors, successors, and sympathizers in different directions, creating an amorphous entity of a school. It is beyond question, however, that Schmoller was the leader of the younger German Historical School, the genuine school with a sociological 1 reality. Schmoller was indeed the towering figure of the Historical School at its zenith.

Japanese perspective on German economic history Interpretation of Schumpeter's methodology and clarification of differences between Schumpeter and Milton Friedman Exploration of similarities between Schumpeter's and Weber's methodology Exploration of the importance of Schumpeter's missing Chapter 7 from the Theory of Economic Development as the source of his idea of universal social science Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Klappentext

This volume is a collection of my essays on Gustav von Schmoller (1838 1917), Max Weber (1864 1920), and Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 1950), published during the past fifteen years. These three intellectual giants are connected with the German Historical School of Economics in different ways. In the history of economics, the German Historical School has been described as a heterodox group of economic researchers who flourished in the Germ- speaking world throughout the nineteenth century. The definition of a school is always problematic. Even if the core of a certain idea were identified in the continuous and discontinuous process of the filiation and ramification of thought, it is still possible to trace its predecessors, successors, and sympathizers in different directions, creating an amorphous entity of a school. It is beyond question, however, that Schmoller was the leader of the younger German Historical School, the genuine school with a sociological 1 reality. Schmoller was indeed the towering figure of the Historical School at its zenith.

Inhalt
Rational Reconstruction of the German Historical School: An Overview.- A Methodological Appraisal of Schmoller's Research Program.- Getting Back Max Weber from Sociology to Economics.- Joseph Schumpeter and the German Historical School.- Instrumentalism in Schumpeter's Economic Methodology.- Schumpeter on Schmoller and Weber: A Methodology of Economic Sociology.- The Origin of the Schumpeterian Research Program: A Chapter Omitted from Schumpeter's Theory of Economic Development.- The Science and Ideology of Schumpeter.- Schumpeter on the Relationship between Economics and Sociology from the Perspective of Doctrinal History.- Schumpeter's Preface to the Fourth German Edition of The Theory of Economic Development.- The Schumpeter Family in T?et'.