Heinsohns und Steigers These, daß das Geld nicht als technisches Neutrum zur Verbesserung des Tauschens, sondern aus den Modalitäten von Gläubiger-Schuldnerkontrakten einer Privateigentümergesellschaft entstanden sei (Heinsohn, 1984: Kap. 4; auch: Heinsohn/Steiger, 1983), hat einen...

Schmoller tried to combine reasoning and economic analysis to give a new foundation to German economic theory in the nineteenth century. Opposing the economic philosophy of Fichte, Schmoller preferred an institutional approach to the extremes of pure market and pure state economy. His ideas on...

Analysing the values theories of the nineteenth century, there is a remarkable difference between German and English theories: the idea of subjective value is a very German idea, from the beginning of the nineteenth century, ignored by textbooks of the history of economic thought. The German...