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The Soul of the German Historical School

Methodological Essays on Schmoller, Weber and Schumpeter

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Yuichi Shionoya

    1. Hitotsubashi University, Japan

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  • 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

Part of the book series: The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences (EHES, volume 2)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Rational Reconstruction of the German Historical School: An Overview

    Pages 1-11

  3. A Methodological Appraisal of Schmoller’s Research Program

    Pages 13-30

  4. Getting Back Max Weber from Sociology to Economics

    Pages 31-50

  5. Joseph Schumpeter and the German Historical School

    Pages 51-63

  6. Instrumentalism in Schumpeter’s Economic Methodology

    Pages 65-96

  7. Schumpeter on Schmoller and Weber: A Methodology of Economic Sociology

    Pages 97-118

  8. The Origin of the Schumpeterian Research Program: A Chapter Omitted from Schumpeter’s Theory of Economic Development

    Pages 119-132

  9. The Science and Ideology of Schumpeter

    Pages 133-162

  10. Schumpeter on the Relationship between Economics and Sociology from the Perspective of Doctrinal History

    Pages 163-178

  11. Schumpeter’s Preface to the Fourth German Edition of The Theory of Economic Development

    Pages 179-191

  12. The Schumpeter Family in Třešt’

    Pages 193-207
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About this book

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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  • Hitotsubashi University, Japan

    Yuichi Shionoya

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