Description

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.

Features

• Assesses the course of modern Germany, since Germany's path of historical development is linked by many to the failure of German liberalism.

Reviews

"...anyone 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

Product Details

352 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-926041-6ISBN10: 0-19-926041-9

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