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The role of the German Historical School in the development of Mises’s thought

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  • Leonid Krasnozhon

    (Loyola University New Orleans)

  • Mykola Bunyk

    (Lviv Regional Institute of Public Administration)

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Hülsmann (2007) and Hayek ([1922] 1981) have argued that Mises’s first book The Development of the Relationship between Lords of Manor and Peasants in Galicia, 1772–1848 (1902) is written in the tradition of the German Historical School. Historicist contemporaries of Mises also considered his first academic work a continuation of the Knapp-Grünberg tradition (Kaser Jahrbuch für Gesetzgebung, Verwaltung und Volkswirtschaft im Deutschen Reich, 28(1), 374–79, 1904; Wimbersky, 1906). We argue that von Mises (1902) does not represent the younger German Historical School. First, Mises provides a rationalization of the history rather than ethical and cultural explanation of historical events. Second, he does not support the Knapp-Grünberg argument about the historical development of serfdom under a Slavic rule. Finally, von Mises (1902) does not adhere to the ideology of the Historical School regarding the virtues of the Prussian bureaucracy.

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  • Leonid Krasnozhon & Mykola Bunyk, 2018. "The role of the German Historical School in the development of Mises’s thought," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 31(3), pages 343-357, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:revaec:v:31:y:2018:i:3:d:10.1007_s11138-017-0388-x
    DOI: 10.1007/s11138-017-0388-x
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    Keywords

    Mises; Grünberg; Galicia; Austrian school; Historical school;
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    JEL classification:

    • B13 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Neoclassical through 1925 (Austrian, Marshallian, Walrasian, Wicksellian)
    • B15 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary
    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • B53 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Austrian

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