The rise of historical economics and social reform in Germany, 1864-1894 / Erik Grimmer-Solem.

0199260419
9780199260416

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

English

xiii, 338 pages ; 22 cm.

HB107 .G75 2003

"Social science and social reform flourished in Imperial Germany, and the historical economist Gustav Schmoller made fundamental contributions to both. Despite this, historians have neglected him. Questioning the term 'German Historical School' associated with Schmoller, Grimmer-Solem reveals the European context of Schmoller's thought and the influence of empiricism, statistics, and advances in the natural sciences on his choice of methods. By exploring the social context in detail, he demonstrates how the nexus of young scholars around Schmoller fundamentally transformed German economics into a tool of social reform which was directly relevant to the many 'social questions' raised by rapid industrialization and urbanization in Germany in the 1860s." "Grimmer-Solem makes a unique and much-needed contribution to our understanding of the thought and milieu of Gustav Schmoller, the origins of social reform, and the development of the social sciences in Germany. The resulting volume addresses central questions in the historiography of the German Empire, of relevance to German, European, social, and intellectual historians."--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-322) and index.

Oxford historical monographs.

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