This volume brings together 11 articles on Gustav von Schmoller, Max Weber, and Joseph Schumpeter. It aims to identify the methodological essence of the German Historical School (GHS) that flourished between the 1840s and the 1930s. Schmoller was a leader of the GHS, and Weber and Schumpeter,...

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Rational Reconstruction of the German Historical School: An Overview -- 2. A Methodological Appraisal of Schmoller's Research Program -- 3. Getting Back Max Weber from Sociology to Economics -- 4. Joseph Schumpeter and the...