The volume at hand gives an exposition of the tradition of the Historical School of Economics and of the Geisteswissenschaften or human sciences, the latter in their development within the Historical School as well as in Neo-Kantianism and the sociology of knowledge. It continues the discussion started in the year 1994 on the Older Historical School of Economics and the 19th century German contribution to an ethical theory of economics with the Newer Historical School of the 20th century. Economists, social scientists, and philosophers examine the contribution of this tradition and its impact for present theory. The schools of thought and their approaches to economics as well as to the cultural and social sciences are examined here not as much for their historical interest as for their poten tial systematic contribution to the contemporary debates on economic ethics, economics, sociology, and philosophy. The volume at hand contains the proceedings of the Fourth Annual SEEP-Conference on Economic Ethics and Philosophy in 1996, "Economics and Ethics in the Historical School. Part B: Max Weber, Heinrich Rickert, Max Scheler, Werner Sombart, Arthur Spiethoff, John Commons, Alfred Marshall, and Others", held at Marienrode Monastery near Hannover, Germa ny, on March 27-30th, 1996, together with several additional invited papers.

The book presents the achievement and the present relevance of the German Newer Historical School of Economics.

Inhalt
One On Max Weber's Contribution.- 1 The Present Relevance of Max Weber's Wertrationalität (Value Rationality).- 2 Max Weber and Ludwig von Mises, and the Methodology of the Social Sciences.- Two Neo-Kantianism, Wissenssoziologie (Sociology of Knowledge), and the Sociological Theory of Money and Exchange.- 3 Value Theory and the Foundations of the Cultural Sciences. Remarks on Rickert.- 4 The Sociology of Knowledge and Diagnosis of Time with Max Scheler and Karl Mannheim.- 5 Georg Simmel's Contribution to a Theory of the Money Economy.- Three Ethics and Economics in Sombart, Spiethoff, Freyer, and in Older German Business Administration.- 6 Ethics and Economics in the Work of Werner Sombart.- 7 Historical Changes and Economics in Arthur Spiethoff s Theory of Wirtschaftsstil (Style of an Economic System).- 8 Hans Freyer's Economic Philosophy After World War II.- 9 Business Ethics in Older German Business Administration: Heinrich Nicklisch, Wilhelm Kalveram, August Marx.- Four Austrian Economics and the Historical School.- 10 Carl Menger and the Historicism in Economics.- 11 The 'Irrelevance' of Ethics for the Austrian School.- Five The Historical School and American and British Economists: John R. Commons, Frank Knight, Alfred Marshall.- 12 The Historicism of John R. Commons's Legal Foundations of Capitalism.- 13 Frank Knight and the Historical School.- 14 Method and Marshall.- Six The Historical School and the Development of Economics in Japan and Russia.- 15 Two Developments of the Concept of Anschauliche Theorie (Concrete Theory) in Germany and Japan.- 16 Some Reflections on Ethics and Economics Concerning the German Historical School and Its Reception in Russia.- Seven The Historical School of Economics and Today's Economics.- 17 The Old and the NewInstitutionalism in Economics.- 18 Moral Leadership in Ethical Economics.- Eight Theories of History and of Education, and a Philosophy of the Historical School.- 19 Theories of History and of Education in Germany and France During the 19th Century.- 20 A Philosophy of the Historical School: Erich Rothacker's Theory of the Geisteswissenschaften (Human Sciences).- Conclusion.- 21 Germany, Japan and National Economics: An Alternative Paradigm of Modernity?.- List of Authors and Discussants.- Index of Names.