The Soul of the German Historical School (eBook)

Methodological Essays on Schmoller, Weber and Schumpeter

Yuichi Shionoya (Autor)

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2006 | 2005
XV, 207 Seiten
Springer US (Verlag)
978-0-387-23085-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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 "e;school"e; 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

Contents 6
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 9
1. Rational Reconstruction of the German Historical School: An Overview 16
2. A Methodological Appraisal of Schmoller’s Research Program 28
3. Getting Back Max Weber from Sociology to Economics 46
4. Joseph Schumpeter and the German Historical School 66
5. Instrumentalism in Schumpeter’s Economic Methodology 80
6. Schumpeter on Schmoller and Weber: A Methodology of Economic Sociology 112
7. The Origin of the Schumpeterian Research Program: A Chapter Omitted from Schumpeter’s Theory of Economic Development 134
8. The Science and Ideology of Schumpeter 148
9. Schumpeter on the Relationship between Economics and Sociology from the Perspective of Doctrinal History 178
10. Schumpeter’s Preface to the Fourth German Edition of The Theory of Economic Development 194
11. The Schumpeter Family in Trest 208

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.1.2006
• Reihe/Serie: The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences
• Reihe/Serie: The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 207 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Economic Development • Economic History • German Historical School • Joseph Schumpeter • Max Weber • Schumpeter
• ISBN-10: 0-387-23085-8 / 0387230858
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-23085-6 / 9780387230856