----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- [Posted on behalf of Thomas Moser.] 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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]