Methodology of the Social Sciences, Ethics, and Economics in the Newer Historical School From Max Weber and Rickert to Sombart and Rothacker

The volume at hand gives an exposition of the tradition of the Historical School of Economics and of the Geisteswissenschaften or human sciences, the latter in their development within the Historical School as well as in Neo-Kantianism and the sociology of knowledge. It continues the discussion star...

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Other Authors: Koslowski, Peter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1997, 1997
Edition:1st ed. 1997
Series:Ethical Economy, Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 18 Moral Leadership in Ethical Economics
  • Eight Theories of History and of Education, and a Philosophy of the Historical School
  • 19 Theories of History and of Education in Germany and France During the 19th Century
  • 20 A Philosophy of the Historical School: Erich Rothacker’s Theory of the Geisteswissenschaften (Human Sciences)
  • Conclusion
  • 21 Germany, Japan and National Economics: An Alternative Paradigm of Modernity?
  • List of Authors and Discussants
  • Index of Names
  • One On Max Weber’s Contribution
  • 1 The Present Relevance of Max Weber’s Wertrationalität (Value Rationality)
  • 2 Max Weber and Ludwig von Mises, and the Methodology of the Social Sciences
  • Two Neo-Kantianism, Wissenssoziologie (Sociology of Knowledge), and the Sociological Theory of Money and Exchange
  • 3 Value Theory and the Foundations of the Cultural Sciences. Remarks on Rickert
  • 4 The Sociology of Knowledge and Diagnosis of Time with Max Scheler and Karl Mannheim
  • 5 Georg Simmel’s Contribution to a Theory of the Money Economy
  • Three Ethics and Economics in Sombart, Spiethoff, Freyer, and in Older German Business Administration
  • 6 Ethics and Economics in the Work of Werner Sombart
  • 7 Historical Changes and Economics in Arthur Spiethoff s Theory of Wirtschaftsstil (Style of an Economic System)
  • 8 Hans Freyer’s Economic Philosophy After World War II
  • 9 Business Ethics in Older German Business Administration: Heinrich Nicklisch, Wilhelm Kalveram, August Marx
  • Four Austrian Economics and the Historical School
  • 10 Carl Menger and the Historicism in Economics
  • 11 The ‘Irrelevance’ of Ethics for the Austrian School
  • Five The Historical School and American and British Economists: John R. Commons, Frank Knight, Alfred Marshall
  • 12 The Historicism of John R. Commons’s Legal Foundations of Capitalism
  • 13 Frank Knight and the Historical School
  • 14 Method and Marshall
  • Six The Historical School and the Development of Economics in Japan and Russia
  • 15 Two Developments of the Concept of Anschauliche Theorie (Concrete Theory) in Germany and Japan
  • 16 Some Reflections on Ethics and Economics Concerning the German Historical School and Its Reception in Russia
  • Seven The Historical School of Economics and Today’s Economics
  • 17 The Old and the NewInstitutionalism in Economics