The theory of ethical economy in the historical school : Wilhelm Roscher, Lorenz von Stein, Gustav Schmoller, Wilhelm Dilthey and Contemporary Theory / Peter Koslowki (ed.).

Preface / Peter Koslowski, v -- Economics as ethical economy in the tradition of the historical school. Introduction / Peter Koslowski, 1 -- Part One. The older historical school, 15 -- Chapter 1. Intention and failure of W. Roscher's historical method of national economics / Birger P. Priddat, 15 -- Chapter 2. Personality as a principle of individual and institutional development Lorenz von Stein's institutional theory of a labour-society / Eckart Pankoke, 39 -- PartTwo. Schmoller's contribution to economics and economic ethics, 57 -- Chapter 3. A methodological appraisal of Schmoller's research programm / Yuichi Shionoya, 57 -- Chapter 4. The role of ethics as part of the historical methods of Schmoller and the older historical school / Horst K. Betz, 81 -- Part Three. Wilhelm Dilthey's foundations of the historical and cultural sciences, 109 -- Chapter 5. Dilthey's Verstehen sociology, philosophy of culture, and ethics / Horst Jürgen Helle, 109 -- Part Four. Cross analyses of the historical school: historism in ltaly and Japan, 129 -- Chapter 6. Historism and liberalism in Italy / Pierangelo Schiera, 129 -- Chapter 7. Historism and Liberalism in Japan / Naoshi Yamawaki, 152 -- Part Five. Systematic questions of historism and social science in contemporary thought, 173 -- Section A. Historism and business ethics, 173 -- Chapter 8. Institutional economics, management science and the historical school / Dieter Schneider, 173 -- Chapter 9. In search of a theory Gustav Schmoller on economic justice: a guide to present problems in business ethics? / Henk J. L. Van Luijk, 206 -- Section B. Historism, economic systems, and economic culture -- Chapter 10. Theoretical approaches to a comparison of economic systems from a historical perspective / Bertram Schefold, 221 -- Chapter 11. Confucian culture and economic development in east Asia / Il Gon Kim, 250 -- Section C. Historism in sociology and philosophy, 267 -- Chapter 12. Communitarianism, pragmatism, historicism / Hans Joas, 267 -- Chapter 13. Is Postmodernism a neohistorism? on the absoluteness and the historicity of history / Peter Koslowski, 286 -- Section D. Historism in the social sciences. Conclusions, 313 -- Chapter 14. Historism in the German tradition of social and economic thought or: what is living and what is dead in historism / Lawrence A. Scaff, 313 -- List of authors and discussants, 335 -- Index of names, 337.