This book analyses the influence of the German Historical School on institutional economists who pioneered the study of marketing in America and Britain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing from extensive archival materials, it documents the early intellectual genealogy of marketing science and traces how
D.G. Brian Jones is the founding Editor of the Journal of Historical Research in Marketing and co-editor of the Routledge Studies in the History of Marketing. His research focuses on the history of marketing thought and has been published widely.
Mark Tadajewski is the Editor of the Journal of Marketing Management, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, the co-editor of the Routledge Studies in Critical Marketing and the Routledge Studies in the History of Marketing series.
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Introduction
Historical Research in Marketing
Collegiate Education for Business - and Marketing
The Emerging Marketing Discipline
Origins in Economic Thought
Method and Overview
Conclusion
Chapter Two: The German Historical School of Economics
Introduction
The Migration of American Students to Germany
Science in the Service of Industry
The German Historical School of Economics
The Older School
The Younger School
Influence of the German Historical School of Economics
Conclusion
Chapter Three: Foundations of Marketing Thought at the University of Wisconsin
Introduction
The Conditions of Possibility for Richard T. Ely at Wisconsin
Ely Arrives at Wisconsin
Back to Classical Economics and Beyond
Ely's Trial: Economic Heresy
Wisconsin Students of the German Historical School
Edward David Jones
Henry Charles Taylor
Economics and Commerce at Wisconsin
Conclusion
Chapter Four: Foundations of Marketing Thought at the University of Illinois
Introduction
Simon Litman and the Foundations of Marketing Thought
University of California (1902 - 1908)
University of Illinois (1908 - 1948)
Conclusion
Appendix 4.1 Outline of "Mechanism & Technique of Commerce"
Chapter Five: Foundations of Marketing Thought at the University of Birmingham, UK
Introduction
William James Ashley (1860 - 1927)
Business Education in Britain
Ashley - Economic Historian and Business Educator
Moving to Birmingham
Business Economics and Marketing
Teaching Commercial Policy (Marketing):
"Business Poli