Methodology of the Social Sciences, Ethics, and Economics in the Newer Historical School Fro... Book

On Max Weber's Contribution: The Present Relevance of Max Weber's Wertrationalität (Value Rationality); Max Weber and Ludwig von Mises, and the Methodology of the Social Sciences.- Neo-Kantianism, Wissenssoziologie (Sociology of Knowledge), and the Sociological Theory of Money and Exchange: Value Theory and the Foundations of the Cultural Sciences. Remarks on Rickert; The Sociology of Knowledge and Diagnosis of Time with Max Scheler and Karl Mannheim; Georg Simmel's Contribution to a Theory of the Money Economy.- Ethics and Economics in Sombart, Spiethoff, Freyer, and in Older German Business Administration: Ethics and Economics in the Work of Werner Sombart; Historical Changes and Economics in Arthur Spiethoff's Theory of Wirtschaftsstil (Style of an Economic System); Hans Freyer's Economic Sociology After World War II; Business Ethics in Older German Business Administration: Heinrich Nicklisch, Wilhelm Kalveram, August Marx.- Austrian Economics and the Historical School: Carl Menger and the Historicism in Economics; The "Irrelevance" of Ethics for the Austrian School.- The Historical School and American and British Economists: John R. Commons, Frank Knight, Alfred Marshall: The Historicism of John R. Common's Legal Foundations of Capitalism; Frank Knight and the Historical School; Method and Marshall.- The Historical School and the Development of Economics in Japan and Russia: Two Developments of the Concept of Anschauliche Theorie (Concrete Theory) in Germany and Japan; Some Reflections on Ethics and Economics Concerning the German Historical School and Its Reception in Russia.- The Historical School of Economics and Today's Economists: The Old and the New Institutionalism in Economics; Moral Leadership in Ethical Economics.- Theories of History and of Education, and a Philosophy of the Historical School: Theories of History and of Education in Germany and France During the 19th Century; A Philosophy of the Historical School: Erich Rothacker's Theory of the Geisteswissenschaften (Humane Sciences).- Conclusion: Germany, Japan and National Economics. An Alternative Paradigm of Modernity?