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	Methodenstreit - Encyclopedia.com
		It is no accident that debate over methodology in the social sciences (Methodenstreit) focused on Germany in the 1890s, and that renowned figures of Germanic social science, such as Weber and Schutz, practiced
		This was the substance of, and a consequence of, the Methodenstreit, which we tend to think of as German but indeed took place throughout the world of Western knowledge production.
		From this persective the book provides a concise introduction to the Methodenstreit and more generally to the prevalence of questions about the existence of 'universal' laws of society.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O88-Methodenstreit.html (801 words)

	Methodenstreit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Methodenstreit is a German term referring to an intellectual controversy or debate over epistemology, research methodology, or the way in which academic inquiry is framed or pursued.
		The term "Austrian school of economics" came into existence as a result of the Methodenstreit, when Schmoller used it in an unfavourable review of one of Menger's later books, and was intended to convey an impression of backwardness and obscurantism of Habsburg Austria compared to the more modern Prussians.
		Politically there were overtones of a conflict between the classical liberalism of the Austrian School and the welfare state advocated by the Historical School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Methodenstreit (493 words)

	Eastern Economic Journal: Methodenstreit and the emergence of mathematical economics, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The "controversy on methodology"--the Methodenstreit surfaced as one of the focal issues of political economy in the German language universe during the last (two) decades of the 19th century.
		The positions adopted by Methodenstreit antagonists towards mathematics as a tool of economic research were a highly significant, though distinct, subject of the discussion of methodology in that period.
		The final section attempts to trace the impact of the Methodenstreit and the rejection of the mathematical method in the German language universe on the development and state of German economics in the early decades of the 20th century and in the 1920s in particular.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3620/is_199601/ai_n8754806 (1145 words)

	Carl Menger - Economische begrippen
		Zo begon de zogenaamde Methodenstreit, die af en toe nogal heftige trekjes vertoonde.
		Een instelling als het Centraal Planbueau bijvoorbeeld vult haar theoretische modellen met empirisch verkregen materiaal.
		De Methodenstreit begon uiteindelijk nogal persoonlijke trekken te vertonen.
	www.economische-begrippen.nl /Menger.htm (541 words)

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		Methodenstreit was a controversy over the method and epistemological character of economics carried on in the late 1880s and early 1890s between the supporters of the Austrian School of Economics, led by Carl Menger, andthe proponents of the (German) Historical School, led by Gustav von Schmoller.
		The term "Austrian school of economics" came into existence as a result of the Methodenstreit, when Schmoller used it in anunfavourable review of one of Menger's later books and was intended to convey an impression of backwardness and obscurantism of Habsburg Austria compared to the more modern Prussians.
		On an intellectual level the methodenstreit was a question of whether there could be a science, apart from history, whichcould explain the dynamics of human action.
	immune-system-help.com /school/historical/methodenstreit.html (398 words)

	Austrian School
		The school originated in Vienna and owes its name to members of the Historical School of economics who during the Methodenstreit, where the Austrians defended the reliance that classical economists derisively called it the "Austrian School" to emphasize its departure from mainstream German thought and to suggest a provincial approach.
		This was partly a reaction to the Methodenstreit when they attacked the Hegelian doctrines of the Historical School.
		Though many Marxist authors have attempted to portray the Austrian school as a bourgeois reaction to Marx, such an interpretation is untenable: Menger wrote his Principles of Economics at almost the same time as Marx was completing Das Kapital.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/au/Austrian_school.html (1040 words)

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		His early account of the historical method and the Methodenstreit is balanced and respectful (Schumpeter 1954 [1912]: 152-80). Schumpeter sympathetically appraised Schmoller’s work in a 1926 article devoted to the German economist (Schumpeter 1926).
		Far from being a waste of energy (Schumpeter 1986 [1954]: 814), the Methodenstreit was a crucial battle for the establishment of theoretical economics as the knowledge base of policy.
		As documented in section one, plenty of evidence indicates that the Methodenstreit between Menger and Schmoller did not entail a sharp separation between the two camps.
	www.unipa.it /aispe/papers/Romani.doc (11104 words)

	People (4) in "Human Action" - David Bryant's Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In carrying out the actual program advocated by Knies, Schmoller literally undermined the original aims of the Historical School by claiming that there are universal economic laws, and that the only way to identify them is through the careful study of economic history.
		Methodenstreit, and asserts that the teachings of the Historical School paved the way for Nazism in Germany.
		Methodenstreit, a dispute about the proper procedure of economic inquiry.
	davidbryant.home.att.net /hanames04.htm (2051 words)

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		Abstract: A Methodenstreit is a debate in economics concerning the philosophy of social science.
		The second major economic Methodenstreit was launched by Friedman (1953), and consists of it and the large literature to which that seminal article gave rise.
		A third and ongoing economic Methodenstreit, to which the present paper is a contribution, began with the publication of Caplan (1999).
	www.gmu.edu /departments/economics/pboettke/workshop/spring04/2205capln.5.doc (8588 words)

	Austrian School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The school originated in Vienna and owes its name to members of the Historical School of economics who during the Methodenstreit, where the Austrians defended the reliance that classical economists placed on logic over observation.
		Their Prussian opponents derisively named them the "Austrian School" to emphasize a departure from mainstream German thought and to suggest a provincial approach.
		The Austrian economists were the first liberal economists to systematically challenge the Marxist school.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Austrian_School (1747 words)

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		One is the classic question of the methodenstreit, whether the human sciences need be distinguished methodologically from the physical and biological sciences.
		The point of the distinction was to contrast the attempt to produce knowledge through interpreting how historical actors thought and felt, their practical orientations as well as their explicitly avowed intentions, and the attempt to produce knowledge through study of external causal linkages.
		Reid’s views anticipated the manner of distinguishing human from natural sciences in the methodenstreit, Weber’s arguments for the necessity of tracing any causal argument in sociology back to human action, parts of pragmatism and ordinary language philosophy, and also the recent wave of renewed attention to problems of agency.
	www.ssrc.org /programs/calhoun/publications/ajs.doc (10626 words)

	Kirzner, The Economic Point of View: An Essay in the History of Economic Thought ToC: The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Even definitions of economics were required, during this period, to embrace statements concerning the purpose and the method of the discipline as well as the character of its subject matter.
		But the methodological points that were at issue in the Methodenstreit did have a direct bearing on the conceptions that were formed of the character of economic phenomena.
		The numerous alternative definitions to be con- sidered in subsequent chapters may almost all be traced to the ferment of economic ideas that were revolutionizing economic theory at this time.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Home3/HTML.php?recordID=0723 (16512 words)

	ECO 440 Study Guide 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Carl Menger (1840-1921) was the founder of the Viennese school of economists that produced a rich tradition that is still being developed today.
		Menger’s subjective utility analysis was mostly responsible for the Austrian victory in the methodenstreit.
		Goods of the first order are capable of satisfying human needs directly, while higher-order goods (capital, production goods) derive goods character from their ability to produce lower-order goods.
	webs.wofford.edu /TerrellTD/eco440/440study2.html (3623 words)

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		The Methodenstreit or the First Paradigmatic Battle Between Economics and the Other Social Sciences (1880-1910) This is the period when the transition from "political economy" to "economics" is made.
		Now, what Etzioni calls "socioeconomics" belongs to the last of these periods and can be seen as both a response to the aggressive inroads of economic imperialism into the other social sciences and as a reaction to the incapacity of economics to include any kind of genuine social dimension in its analyses of economic phenomena.
		Weber's thoughtful comments on the destructive potential of the Methodenstreit and the need for a new synthesis of neoclassical economics and the other social sciences, are part of the tradition of modern social science and should therefore be taken into account today when we are on the verge of a new Methodenstreit.
	www.bke.hu /download/OHG_socioeconomicsmeth.txt (18930 words)

	GERMAN HISTORICAL SCHOOL
		However, the Verein was quickly seen as an instrument of the conservative Prussian government and it earned Schmoller and his colleagues the label of "socialists of the chair" (Katheder Sozialisten).
		While the Methodenstreit was highly acrimonious and resolved nothing, in terms of impact on later economics, Menger and the Austrians emerged victorious.
		But, in the short term, it was an empty victory: the Historicists retained control of German economic chairs and went on to extend their influence into America - through Richard Ely, Edwin
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/schools/historic.htm (1189 words)

	Historical Setting, The Methodenstreit
		Menger reacted, in 1884, with a pamphlet, Die Irrtümer des Historismus in der Deutschen Nationalökonomie, The various publications that this controversy engendered are known under the name of the Methodenstreit, the clash over methods.
		The Methodenstreit contributed but little to the clarification of the problems involved.
		Menger was too much under the sway of John Stuart Mill's empiricism to carry his own point of view to its full logical consequences.
	www.mises.org /hsofase/ch2sec3.asp (556 words)

	Max Weber and the State Theory of Money
		That Mises and Knapp were on different sides of the Methodenstreit may explain the unsympathetic reading that Mises gave The State Theory of Money.
		To explain a phenomenon theoretically means to trace back its appearance to the operation of general rules which are already comprised in the theoretical system" (1963, p.
		Menger's theory of the origin of money and Mises's regression theory provide evidence that the two sides in the Methodenstreit may not have been that far apart on substantive issues in economic theory.
	home.manhattan.edu /~fiona.maclachlan/maclachlan23feb03.htm (4647 words)

	catallaxy » Blog Archive » A Formula for German Revival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The “Methodenstreit” and the “bonfire of regulations” are revisited in a piece at Tech Central Station, “From German Dawn to Decadence”, presumably an allusion to Barzun’s recent bestselling blockbuster on western civilisation.
		The background is the standoff between the major parties in Germany, and the general opinion that although both accept that things have to change, the extent of the changes that they are likely to attempt is far too limited.
		The Methodenstreit was triggered by a paper on economic methodology by Carl Menger when he tried to stimulate interest in his blockbusting book on economic theory which he thought had not been understood, especially by the economists working in the German historical school.
	www.badanalysis.com /catallaxy/?p=1231 (1404 words)

	I. Wallerstein, "Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century"
		I shall not review here the internal methodological struggles of the social sciences, as they sought to carve a space for themselves amidst the two-culture split between science and the humanities.
		Suffice it to remember that, in this Methodenstreit, the three principal disciplines that were created to deal with the modern world - economics, political science, and sociology - all opted to be nomothetic, by which they meant replicating to the extent possible the methods and epistemological worldview of Newtonian mechanics.
		The other social sciences thought of themselves as more humanistic and narrative but were nonetheless attempting in their own partial manner to be "scientific." The humanistic scholars embraced the scientific emphasis on empirical data but cavilled at the idea of universal "generalizations."
	fbc.binghamton.edu /iwunesco.htm (4780 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Methodenstreit Comix by Ivan Pongracic [Posted on Wednesday, November 02, 2005] [Subscribe at email services and tell others ] Vienna and Chicago
		English Methodenstreit Methodenstreit 69 A Christian perspective on economics Clive Beed and Cara Beed 91 Communications Postmodernism and economics: a middlebrow view
		Although he had contributed to the Methodenstreit against the German Historicists and on behalf of Menger, the other Austrians had long written him off as one of the faithful - and his old Marxian...
	methodenstreit.iqexpand.com (574 words)

	Institutional Inquiry: The Search for Similarities and Differences - Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lind's assertion is reminiscent of the debate during the latter part of the nineteenth century known as the "Battle of Methods," or methodenstreit, which raged between the historical school and the marginalists.
		Lind's charge that institutionalism has no common methodology is only the latest in the ongoing methodenstreit between institutionalists and other economists.
		Periodically, a new charge is made that institutionalism is not a school, has no methodology, or is merely a covering for heterodox economics.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5000412805 (610 words)

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