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I returned to Tokyo from Buenos Aires late August. 
 
Erich Streissler's paper for the world congress of IEA, "Rau, Hermann  
and Roscher: Contributions of German Economics around the middle  
of the 19th Century", was his own survey or summary of his nine  
articles on this theme, including his HOPE paper (see Bruce Caldwell's  
posting).   
 
Some of Streissler's points, other than introducing the contribution of  
early German economists in English, were:   
 
These early German economists discussed in Streissler's paper were  
not monograph writers of specialist subjects, but textbook writers of  
the whole subject who were not concerned about originality.   
 
Streissler has found in the early German textbook tradition the reason  
why Carl Menger did not initially and could not think of himself as a  
revolutionary, but merely as a perfecter of received German doctrine,  
when he publsihed his _Principles of Economics_ in 1871.   
 
Surely some changes occurred for (German) economists in the 1870s.  
The establishment of academic societies including the creation of  
Verein fur Sozialpolitik by Schomoller (1872), professionalization, the  
concern about priority and originality, et al.   
 
Streissler's own related works in the list of references are: 
 
(1990a) "The influence of German economics on the works of Menger  
and Marshall", History of Political Economy, 22 (supple.), pp. 31-68.   
_Carl Menger and his Legacy in Economics_ edited by Bruce  
Caldwell, Duke University Press.   
 
(1990b) "Carl Menger, der deusche Nationalokonom", Schriften des  
Wereings fur Socialpolitik, N. F., 115/X, pp. 153-195.   
 
(1994a) "German predecessors of the Austrian school", in Peter J.  
Boettke (ed.), _The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics_, E.  
Elgar, pp. 493-499.   
 
(1994b) _Carl Menger's Lectures to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria_  
(with Monika Streissler), E. Elgar.   
 
(1994c) "The influence of German and Austrian economics on Joseph  
A. Schumpeter", in Y. Shionoya and M. Perlman (ed.), _Schumpeter in  
the History of Ideas_, Michigan U. P., pp. 13-38.   
 
(1995) "Wilhelm Roscher als fuhrender Wirtschaftstheoretiker", in  
_Vandemekum zu einem Klassiker der histrischen Schule_, Wirtschaft  
und Finanzen, pp. 37-121.   
 
(1997) _Wilhelm Benedikt Wilhelm von Hermann: Anatomie einer  
wissenschaftlichen Verwandlung_, Bayerische akademie der  
Wissenschaften.   
 
(1999) "Friedrich B. W. von Hermann als Wirtschaftstheoretiker",  
about to be published.   
 
(2000) "Nationalokonomi als Naturlehre: Vom Wandel  
wirtschaftspolitischer Vorstellungen von Rau zu Roscher", Schriften  
des Vereins fur Socialpolitik, N. F. 115/X, to be published.   
 
Aiko Ikeo 
 
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