The Theory of Ethical Economy in the Historical School: Wilhelm Roscher, Lorenz von Stein, Gustav Schmoller, Wilhelm Dilthey and Contemporary Theory: Ethical Economy

Economics as Ethical Economy in the Tradition of the Historical School. Introduction.- One The Older Historical School.- 1 Intention and Failure of W. Roscher’s Historical Method of National Economics.- 2 “Personality” as a Principle of Individual and Institutional Development Lorenz von Stein’s Institutional Theory of a “Labour-Society”.- Two Schmoller’s Contribution to Economics and Economic Ethics.- 3 A Methodological Appraisal of Schmoller’s Research Programm.- 4 The Role of Ethics as Part of the Historical Methods of Schmoller and the Older Historical School.- Three Wilhelm Dilthey’s Foundations of the Historical and Cultural Sciences.- 5 Dilthey’s “Verstehen” Sociology, Philosophy of Culture, and Ethics.- Four Cross Analyses of the Historical School: Historism in Italy and Japan.- 6 Historism and Liberalism in Italy.- 7 Historism and Liberalism in Japan.- Five Systematic Questions of Historism and Social Science in Contemporary Thought.- 8 Institutional Economics, Management Science and the Historical School.- 9 In Search of a Theory Gustav Schmoller on Economic Justice: A Guide to Present Problems in Business Ethics?.- 10 Theoretical Approaches to a Comparison of Economic Systems from a Historical Perspective.- 11 Confucian Culture and Economic Development in East Asia.- 12 Communitarianism, Pragmatism, Historicism.- 13 Is Postmodernism a Neohistorism? On the Absoluteness and the Historicity of History.- 14 Historism in the German Tradition of Social and Economic Thought or: What Is Living and What Is Dead in Historism.- List of Authors and Discussants.- Index of Names.