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Here some information regarding German literature on the subject.  
One of the earliest attempts in the history of economics - I guess  
not only in German - seems to be Karl Gottlob Roessig's "Versuch  
einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Oekonomie-, Polizey- und  
Cameralwissenschaften" (Leipzig 1781/82). Another early general  
history of economics is Julius Kautz's "Geschichtliche Entwicklung  
der Nationalökonomie und ihrer Literatur" (1860). Roscher has  
written a history of English Economics (Zur Geschichte der  
englischen Volkswirtschaftslehre im 16. und 17. Jh.), which was  
published in 1857, and a widely read and - according to  
Schumpeter (1914) - at the time very influential history of German  
Economics (Geschichte der Nationaloekonomie in Deutschland)  
published in 1874. Much higher rated by Schumpeter (1914),  
however, was Karl Eugen Duehring's history of economics and  
socialism (Kritische Geschichte der Nationalökonomie und des  
Socialismus) published in 1871. But the leading German history of  
economics text in the time area of interest seems to have been  
Othmar Spann's "Die Haupttheorien der Volkswirtschaftslehre"  
published in 1911. Finally, there is Schumpeter's "Epochen der  
Dogmen- und Methodengeschichte", which was published in 1914. 
 
In addition to these general histories, it might be interesting to take  
the histories of specific subjects into consideration. In the German  
literature one would have to mention Boehm-Bawerk's "Geschichte  
und Kritik der Kapitalzinstheorien; Kapital und Kapitalzins, Bd. I"  
(1884) and Marx's "Theorien über den Mehrwert" (1905/10). In the  
English literature, for instance, Sewall's "The theory of Value before  
Adam Smith" (1901). 
 
Regards, 
Thomas Moser 
 
 
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