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

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Present Relevance of Max Weber’s Wertrationalität (Value Rationality)....Pages 3-31
Max Weber and Ludwig von Mises, and the Methodology of the Social Sciences....Pages 32-55
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Value Theory and the Foundations of the Cultural Sciences. Remarks on Rickert....Pages 59-78
The Sociology of Knowledge and Diagnosis of Time with Max Scheler and Karl Mannheim....Pages 79-114
Georg Simmel’s Contribution to a Theory of the Money Economy....Pages 115-144
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Ethics and Economics in the Work of Werner Sombart....Pages 147-167
Historical Changes and Economics in Arthur Spiethoff’s Theory of Wirtschaftsstil (Style of an Economic System)....Pages 168-193
Hans Freyer’s Economic Philosophy After World War II....Pages 194-208
Business Ethics in Older German Business Administration: Heinrich Nicklisch, Wilhelm Kalveram, August Marx....Pages 209-227
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Carl Menger and the Historicism in Economics....Pages 231-258
The ‘Irrelevance’ of Ethics for the Austrian School....Pages 259-287
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The Historicism of John R. Commons’s Legal Foundations of Capitalism ....Pages 291-318
Frank Knight and the Historical School....Pages 319-341
Method and Marshall....Pages 342-371
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Two Developments of the Concept of Anschauliche Theorie (Concrete Theory) in Germany and Japan....Pages 375-412
Some Reflections on Ethics and Economics Concerning the German Historical School and Its Reception in Russia....Pages 413-425
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The Old and the New Institutionalism in Economics....Pages 429-466
Moral Leadership in Ethical Economics....Pages 467-487
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Theories of History and of Education in Germany and France During the 19th Century....Pages 491-509
A Philosophy of the Historical School: Erich Rothacker’s Theory of the Geisteswissenschaften (Human Sciences)....Pages 510-531
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Germany, Japan and National Economics: An Alternative Paradigm of Modernity?....Pages 535-551
Back Matter....Pages 552-565