The Rise of Historical Economics and Social Reform in Germany 1864-1894 [Hardcover]

This is the first detailed investigation of the thought, activity, and influence of the German economist and social reformer Gustav Schmoller in the era of Bismarck. Tracing the relationship that developed between political economy and social reform during German industrialization, it explores Schmoller's immense and lasting impact on the development of the social sciences and welfare state in Germany.

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Structures
1. What was the Historical School? A Critical Reassessment
2. The Mode of Production
Part II: Context, Ideas and Methods
3. The Social Question and the Challenge to Economic Orthodoxy
4. Empirical Knowledge and the Reform of Society 1864-1872
Part III: Policy
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: TheMethodenstreit
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

[A]nyone interested in the history of economics and social policy will find this volume deserving of attention. --Modern History

This is a bracing, judicious and eye-opening volume on the nature and functions of the German Historical School of Economics. --EH.NET

Well-organized and clearly written....succeeds in illuminating the wider implications of the historical economists; policies: the ethical foundations of social life, nation-building , civil society, the role of the state, and the integration of all classes into the socioeconomic structure. --American Historical Review