This volume brings together 11 articles on Gustav von Schmoller, Max Weber, and Joseph Schumpeter. It aims to identify the methodological essence of the German Historical School (GHS) that flourished between the 1840s and the 1930s. Schmoller was a leader of the GHS, and Weber and Schumpeter, while not formally regarded as members of the GHS, are its spiritual successors in that they developed methodologies that helped resolve the controversy in method between history and theory, and in that they each practiced unique economic sociology designed as a synthesis of history and theory.
Yuichi Shionoya, the former president of Hitotsubashi University, brings a unique Japanese perspective to this historically significant and reemerging topic. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of economic history, economic sociology, evolutionary economics, and institutional economics.
Author(s): Yuichi Shionoya
Series: The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 207
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
1. Rational Reconstruction of the German Historical School: An Overview......Page 18
2. A Methodological Appraisal of Schmoller's Research Program......Page 30
3. Getting Back Max Weber from Sociology to Economics......Page 48
4. Joseph Schumpeter and the German Historical School......Page 68
5. Instrumentalism in Schumpeter’s Economic Methodology......Page 82
6. Schumpeter on Schmoller and Weber: A Methodology of Economic Sociology......Page 114
7. The Origin of the Schumpeterian Research Program: A Chapter Omitted from Schumpeter’s Theory of Economic Development......Page 136
8. The Science and Ideology of Schumpeter......Page 150
9. Joseph Schumpeter on the Relationship between Economics and Sociology from the Perspective of Doctrinal History......Page 180
10. Schumpeter’s Preface to the Fourth German Edition of The Theory of Economic Development......Page 196
11. The Schumpeter Family in Třešt’......Page 210
