----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]