This book discusses the work of German economists Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner, its influence on the tradition of German and Austrian economic and social thought, and its implications for the discipline today. Schmoller and Wagner integrated philosophical, historical, sociological and...

This book discusses the history and socioeconomic impact of Rerum novarum, the first Catholic social encyclical. Drawn from research presented at the 2016 Heilbronn Symposia on Economics and the Social Sciences, this book resumes the discussion on the origin, dissemination and impact of the...

Introduction -- Origins and Change in the Concept of Social Market Economy -- The end of laissez-faire“ – Keynes and Ordoliberalism -- The end of laissez-faire -- Wilhelm Röpke’s ecological Social Market Economy -- Goetz Briefs’ socially tempered capitalism -- Health Policies in the...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- On the early reception and dissemination of Adam Smith’s economic theory in Germany – literature, representatives and the case of Georg Sartorius -- Friedrich List on Adam Smith -- Johann Friedrich Pfeiffer on Adam Smith – An Early --...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Friedrich Engels at 200 Revisiting his maiden paper “Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy” (1844) -- Chapter 3: The Internal Contradiction of Land Rent and Young Engels’ Critical Theory of Private Ownership -- Chapter 4: Engels, Werner Sombart,...

This book discusses Samuel Pufendorf and his contributions to the development of the European Enlightenment and the emergence of economics as a social science. Born in 1632 in Saxony, Pufendorf wrote widely on natural law, ethics, jurisprudence, and political economy and was one of the most...