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History o Political Economy 31 :3 0 1999 by Duke University Press. f that we have learned to call the German Historical School was in reality neither German, nor historical, nor a school. Let us consider each of these three negations in some detail. Not Historical The idea of a specifically âhistoricalâ economics is no ex post facto invention; the aforementioned economists seem themselves to have welcomed the appellation. We see this already on the title page of the inaugural publication of Roscher, the âschoolâsâ first dean: Outline of Lectures on Political Economy, according to the Historical Method (1843). A clue to the true import of this adjective can be gleaned from the most oft-quoted line in the book, where Roscher (1843,2) stated his desire to do for economics âsomething akin to what the method of [Friedrich Carl von] Savigny and [Karl Friedrich] Eichhorn has achieved for jurisprudence.â In other words, Roscher was explicitly hitching his own research program to the coattails of the German Historical School of Jurisprudence. No one aware of the tremendous prestige of historical jurisprudence in modern German culture can doubt that Roscherâs claim was a masterstroke of marketing, itself no dishonorable thing. But
History of Political Economy – Duke University Press
Published: Sep 1, 1999
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