Warum steigt ein Land zur Wirtschaftsmacht auf? Sind Freihandel und Globalisierung Allheilmittel? Was ist die Ursache für die europäische Währungskrise? Bei seiner Reise durch die Wirtschaftsgeschichte von den mächtigen Stadtstaaten der Renaissance bis zum aktuellen Aufstieg Chinas und...

In 1911 Sombart published Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben ( Jews and Economic Life ). As is well known Sombart conceived his essay – a response to Max Weber’s Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus ( Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism ) – as an attempt...

The article presents Max Weber as an economist. Weber's relation to economics is discussed. His inaugural speech in Freiburg "National State and Economic Policy" (1895), "Lectures on General (Theoretical) Economics" (1898), writings about stock exchange (1893-1898) as well as his article...

The late nineteenth-century notion of moving American public finance toward more direct and graduated forms of taxation was an idea that was embedded in and born out of a larger transatlantic web of intellectual exchange. At the center of this international transfer was a group of American...