1st Edition
Arthur Spiethoff and the German Historical School of Economics Continuities and Discontinuities
Introduction to the volume 1. Schmoller and the historical approach: research programme and unsolved problems of a “classic” of economics. 2. Schmoller: from naturalism to historical specificity in the analysis of socio-economic systems 3. A Century of German Debates on Crises: 1821 – 1925 4. Epistemological vision and analysis of the cycle: pure economics, ideal-typical models and historical-concrete explanations. 5. Explanations and causality in cycle theory. 6. Conclusions: the German Historical School of Economics and the search for a new paradigm.
Biography
Vitantonio Gioia - Professor Emeritus at the University of Salento. Former professor of the History of Economic Thought at the University of Macerata and at the University of Salento (Italy). At the University of Macerata, he was Dean of the Faculty of Political Science, Coordinator of the International PhD “The European Tradition of Political Economy” and President of the “University Scientific Commission”. At the University of Salento, he was Director of the Department of “History, Society and Human Studies”. His research interests include Economic Methodology and History of Economic Thought. The recurrent topics of his contributions are the authors of the German Historical School (Hildebrand, Roscher, Schmoller, Spiethoff, Sombart, Max Weber), European Utopian Thought (Saint-Simon, Proudhon, Owen), Marx and Marxist thought, evolution of Italian Economics. He has published numerous articles in refereed journals, many books and chapters in books. He has been involved in several European projects, and presented papers to many European Universities or international conferences.
