With the increasing acceptance of evolutionary and institutional thinking among economists, general interest in the German Historical School has risen steadily during the last decade. This book traces the development and transformation of the School, covering its leading figures such as Adam Muller, Wilhelm Roscher, Karl Knies and Lujo Brentano.

Introduction Uichi Shionoya1. Rational Reconstruction of the German Historical School: an Overview Yuichi Shionoya2. Adam Muller's Agronomische Briefe Tetsushi Harada3. A Lecture Notebook of Wilhelm Roscher with Special Reference to his Published Works Yukihiro Ikeda4. Karl Knies's Conception of Political Economy: the Logical Status of Analogie and Sitte Jun Kobayashi5. Lujo Brentano on the Compulsory Insurance System for Workers in Germany Sachio Kaku6. Anonymous History in Austrian Economic Thought: from Carl Menger and Anton Menger to Friedrich Von Wiesner Kiichiro Yagi7. Gustav Von Schmoller and Werner Sombart: a Contrast in the Historico-Ethical Method and Social Policy Shin'ichi Tamura8. Max Weber and the Critical Succession of the German Historical School Kazuhiko Sumiya9. Joseph Schumpeter on the Relationship Between Economics and Sociology from the Perspective of Doctrinal History Yuichi Shionoya10. Lujo Brentano, Alfred Marshal, and Tokuzo Fukuda: the Reception and Transformation of the German Historical School in Japan Tamotsu Nishizawa11. The Impact of German Ecomomic Thought on Japanese Economists Before World War II Osamu Yanagisawa12. Walter Eucken and Wilhelm Ropke: a Reappraisal of Economic Thought and the Policy of Ordoliberalism Naoshi Yamawaki13. The Economic Reconstruction Plan of Alfred Muller-Armack: What is the Social Market Economy? Makoto Tezuka

Yuichi Shionoya is President of The National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Tokyo and Professor Emeritus, Hitosubashi University.