Purpose – To establish the place of Karl Knies in the history of economics of the German-speaking academics. Design/methodology/approach – Knies's economics teaching is summarized on the basis of a student's notebook of the course on general economics in Heidelberg, 1886. Knies's relation...

This highly illuminating book marks a significant stage in our growing understanding of how the development of national traditions of economic thought has been affected by both internal and external factors.