The Soul of the German Historical School: Methodological Essays on Schmoller, Weber, and Schumpeter
Author(s)
Shionoya, Yuichi
Abstract
Eleven previously published papers on Gustav von Schmoller, Max Weber, and Joseph Alois Schumpeter attempt to rationally reconstruct the methodological essence of the German Historical School of Economics that the three men were connected with. Papers discuss a rational reconstruction of the German Historical School; a methodological appraisal of Schmoller’s research program; Max Weber’s sociology and ways that economics might recover aspects of society that have been expelled from the purview of mainstream economics; Joseph Schumpeter and the German Historical School; instrumentalism in Schumpeter’s economic methodology; Schumpeter on Schmoller and Weber; the origin of the Schumpeterian research program; the science and ideology of Schumpeter; Joseph Schumpeter on the relationship between economics and sociology from the perspective of doctrinal history; Schumpeter’s preface to the fourth German edition of The Theory of Economic Development; and the Schumpeter family in Trest’.
