Historicity of Economics

From the reviews: "It is an attempt to penetrate the concepts of classical economic positions and their origins, as well as - starting from the historical specificity - developing suggestions for a renovation of economic methodology in historical terms. Furthermore, the method of disputation of the collected volume follows a scholastic manner ... . This quaestio disputata, the exchange of views, is what makes this volume particularly interesting." (Nils Goldschmidt, Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik, Vol. 224 (4), 2004) "At the heart of the book is ... German Historical School of Economics (GHSE) whose epistemology is discussed along with its role in contemporary economic debate. ... the book highlights the fact that during the last fifty years the economic debate has freed the GHSE from the view that considered it a conscious support for a conservative, authoritarian state ... . This is an interesting and stimulating book." (Frank C. Dwight, The Journal of European Economic History, Vol. 31 (2), 2002)

• History Matters: From Historical Economics to Modern Institutionalism.- 1 The German Historical School of Economics: What It Was Not, and What It Was.- Commentary.- Commentary.- 2 Grand Historical Narrative or Intellectual Strategy: The Institutional Establishment of the Historical School of Political Economy in the 19th Century.- Commentary.- Commentary.- 3 Institutional Economics and the Problem of Historical Specificity.- Commentary.- Commentary.- 4 Economics as Ethical Economy and Cultural Economics in the Historical School.- Commentary.- 5 What Can New Economic Sociology Learn From the Historical School, especially Max Weber?.- Commentary.- Commentary.- 6 The Role of Culture in Economic Theorizing and Empirical Economic Research.- Commentary.- List of Authors and Discussants.- Index of Names.