This book provides an overview of two hundred years of German economic thought, from the Staatswissenschaften of the eighteenth century to National Socialism and the Social Market.

Drawing on the work of Foucault and Bourdieu, David Lindenfeld illuminates the practical imagination as it was exhibited in the transformation of the political and social sciences during the changing conditions of nineteenth-century Germany ...

Excerpt from The Cameralists: The Pioneers of German Social Polity Tu justify my belief that the labor which this book cost was well spent, it would be necessary to prove first, that Amer icans have much to gain from better understanding of ...