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Gustav von Schmoller

B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches

Gustav von Schmoller was the leading figure of the Younger German Historical School and the dominant organizer of academic economics in Wilhelmine Germany, holding a chair at the University of Berlin from 1882 and shaping the Verein fur Socialpolitik's program of empirical social and labor research. His 1883 review of Carl Menger's methodological work opened the Methodenstreit, the public dispute over whether economics should proceed by abstract deduction or by inductive historical study, and his multi-volume Grundriss der allgemeinen Volkswirtschaftslehre (1900-1904) remained the school's most complete theoretical statement.

Facts
Birth Year
1838 1
Birth Date
1838-06-24 2
Death Year
1917 1
Death Date
1917-06-27 2
Nationality
German 1
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Associated With

Markgenossenschaft, Concepts

German Historical School economists, including Schmoller, studied the Markgenossenschaft as a model of pre-modern communal landholding and used it to argue against universal economic laws.

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Additional Source Markgenossenschaft (Wikipedia)

Associated With School

German Historical School, Schools of Thought
Source Grundriss der allgemeinen VolkswirtschaftslehreGustav von Schmoller

Critiqued Here

Carl Menger, Economists
Additional Source WikipediaGustav von Schmoller, Methodenstreit section
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Nationality

Germany

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Sources
1. Grundriss der allgemeinen Volkswirtschaftslehre
Gustav von Schmoller, Duncker & Humblot, 1900
2. Gustav von Schmoller (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, Born field
    24 June 1838
  • Infobox, Died field
    27 June 1917
  • In Group: Marxian, Austrian, Historical and Institutional Economists, Lead
    Gustav Friedrich (after 1908: von) Schmoller (German: [ˈʃmɔlɐ] ; 24 June 1838-27 June 1917) was the leader of the "younger" German historical school of economics.
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Wikimedia FoundationDebated With: Carl Menger, Gustav von Schmoller, Methodenstreit section
Quote, Debated With: Carl Menger, Gustav von Schmoller, Methodenstreit section
Schmoller coined the term to suggest provincialism in an unfavorable review of the 1883 book Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences with Special Reference to Economics by Carl Menger, which attacked the methods of the historical school. This led to the controversy known as the Methodenstreit.
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Markgenossenschaft (Wikipedia)
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