Schumpeter and the `Schmollerprogramm': integrating theory and history in the analysis of economic development |
| |
Authors: | Alexander Ebner |
| |
Institution: | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit?t, Postfach 11 19 32, Fach 62, D-60054 Frankfurt a.M., Germany (e-mail: alex.ebner@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de), DE
|
| |
Abstract: | This essay addresses the historical and institutional aspects of Schumpeter's thought. It suggests that Schumpeter prepared
a pluralist research agenda, formulated in accordance with the conceptual perspective of the German Historical School, as
presented by major scholars such as Schmoller, Sombart, Spiethoff and Max Weber. Schumpeter's notion of development, with
its emphasis on the correspondence of economic and socio-cultural evolution, is therefore to be viewed in the context of the
comprehensive Schmollerian approach. Moreover the ethical-evolutionary components of Schmoller's ideas point at the vital
role of the German Historical School in the elaboration of a modern evolutionary economics in Schumpeterian terms. The essay
concludes that the Schmollerprogramm is going to inspire further developments in Schumpeterian economics, as the integration of theory and history continuously
marks the research agenda of evolutionary approaches to economic development. |
| |
Keywords: | : History of economic thought – German Historical School – Schmoller program – Schumpeter – Schumpeterian economics – Methodology – Historical theory – Economic evolution – Development |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|