Book Two: The Historical Point of View in Economic Research Introduction
Introduction
The formal nature of political economy and its subdivisions.—It is not a historical science.—Its “historical method” cannot consist in giving up the formal nature characteristic of it or its subdivisions, but only in retaining the historical point of view when it offers orientations of research adequate for political economy.—Nature of the “historical method” in theoretical economics on the one hand, and in the practical sciences of economy on the other.—It is by no means the same in both cases.—Just as little in the exact and realistic orientations of theoretical researc
Chapter One: The Historical Point of View in Theoretical Economics
§1. The development of economic phenomena
Nature of the development.—The development of the individual phenomena.—The two kinds of development of economic phenomena must be distinguished.—The development of empirical forms has a greater significance for social research than (the development of the species!) for the natural sciences.
Chapter Two: The Pseudo-Historical Orientations of Research in Theoretical Economics
Chapter Three: The Historical Point of View in the Practical Sciences of Economy
Book Three: The Organic Understanding of Social Phenomena
Chapter One: The Analogy Between Social Phenomena and Natural Organisms: Its Limits, and the Methodological Points of View for Social Research Resulting Therefrom
§1. The theory of the analogy between social phenomena and natural organisms
Chapter Two: The Theoretical Understanding of Those Social Phenomena Which Are Not a Product of Agreement or of Positive Legislation, but Are Unintended Results of Historical Development
§ 1. That the acknowledgment of social phenomena as organic structures by no means excludes the striving for the exact (the atomistic) understanding of them
Book Four: The Development of the Idea of a Historical Treatment of Political Economy
Chapter One: That the Basic Notions of the Historical School of German Economists Have Long Been Known in Political Science
