Schools of the nineteenth century that held economic laws to depend on time and place and favored the study of history, including the German and English historical schools. A school belongs here when its cited article names the historical method. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading Nineteenth-Century Historical Schools, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field.
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HET Website, The New School for Social Research: The German Historical School
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The German Historical School burst into existence in the mid-19th Century, partly as a reaction to the growing laissez faire ideas spreading in Europe at the time.
New World Encyclopedia: English historical school of economics
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The English Historical School (EHS) considered itself the intellectual heirs of past figures who had emphasized empiricism and induction , such as Francis Bacon , Adam Smith , Auguste Comte , and Herbert Spencer (Cliffe Leslie 1870, Rogers 1880).
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