The rise of historical economics and social reform in Germany, 1864-1894 / Erik Grimmer-Solem.
2003
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Title
The rise of historical economics and social reform in Germany, 1864-1894 / Erik Grimmer-Solem.
Author
Grimmer-Solem, Erik.
ISBN
0199260419
9780199260416
9780199260416
Imprint
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 338 pages ; 22 cm.
Call Number
HB107 .G75 2003
Summary
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-322) and index.
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Oxford historical monographs.
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Table of Contents
1. What was the Historical School? A Critical Reassessment
2. The Mode of Production
3. The Social Question and the Challenge to Economic Orthodoxy
4. Empirical Knowledge and the Reform of Society, 1864-1872
5. The New Economics and the Public, 1872-1880
6. Historical Economics and Policy, 1880-1894
7. From Science of Reform to the Reform of Social Science: The Methodenstreit.
2. The Mode of Production
3. The Social Question and the Challenge to Economic Orthodoxy
4. Empirical Knowledge and the Reform of Society, 1864-1872
5. The New Economics and the Public, 1872-1880
6. Historical Economics and Policy, 1880-1894
7. From Science of Reform to the Reform of Social Science: The Methodenstreit.