Gilles Campagnolo was previously Assistant at Sorbonne University before entering the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) as an Associate Research Professor in the Center unit for Epistemology in Aix-en-Provence, France.

• Foreword Bertram Schefold Part I: Opening the gates of Modernity in philosophical, economic and political German thought 1. Philosophers Put Classical Political Economy On Trial 2. Sources of German Political Economy as a Building-Block of National Identity 3. Nonetheless an Ode to "Odious Capitalism"? Part II: The political economy of mankind and culture (Menschen und Kultur): die Volkswirtschaftslehre 1. The national economics of Germany 2. The economics of state administration or the governance of "administered economics" 3. Interpretations of Marx Part III: Out of Antiquity again and (re)reading Modernity 1. Aristotle as the ancient philosophical source of Menger’s thinking 2. British political and economic thought as the modern philosophical source of Menger’s ideas 3. The Origins of Austrian Marginalism