Journal of the History of Economic Thought Preprints – Jewish social science and the analysis of Jewish statistics in the early 20th century

Early 20Th Century ◽

Race Theory ◽

Late 19Th Century ◽

Historical School ◽

History Of ◽

Statistical Studies ◽

Jewish Populations

The late 19th century saw the multiplication of statistical studies on Jewish populations. This literature is now known as “Jewish Statistics” or “Jewish Social Science” (JSS). This article focuses on the articles published in der Zeitschrift für Demographie und Statistik der Juden (Journal for Demography and Statistics of the Jews, ZDSJ). The ZDSJ was the main journal in JSS and appeared from 1905 until 1931. Existing scholarship on JSS has either focused on the influence of Zionism (Hart, 2000) or eugenics and race theory (Efron, 1994). This article proposes to relate JSS to the history of economics and statistics. As suggests the intellectual profile of the main contributors to the ZDSJ, we argue that JSS was a by-product of the German historical school in economics. Though JSS was intended to a mostly Jewish audience, its organization and methods were clearly inspired by those of German economists.

JEWISH SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE ANALYSIS OF JEWISH STATISTICS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

Journal of the History of Economic Thought ◽

10.1017/s1053837219000634 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 1-26

Author(s):

Nicolas Vallois

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Social Science ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Race Theory ◽

Historical School ◽

History Of Economics ◽

History Of ◽

Statistical Studies ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Jewish Populations

The late nineteenth century saw the multiplication of statistical studies on Jewish populations. This literature is now known as “Jewish Statistics” or “Jewish Social Science” (JSS). This article focuses on the articles published in Zeitschrift für Demographie und Statistik der Juden (Journal for Demography and Statistics of the Jews, ZDSJ). The ZDSJ was the main journal in JSS and appeared from 1905 until 1931.Existing scholarship on JSS has either focused on the influence of Zionism (Hart 2000) or eugenics and race theory (Efron 1994). This article proposes to relate JSS to the history of economics and statistics. As is suggested by the intellectual profile of the main contributors to the ZDSJ, we argue that JSS was a by-product of the German historical school in economics. Though JSS was intended for a mostly Jewish audience, its organization and methods were clearly inspired by those of German economists.

The Myth of the Older Historical School of Economics

Central European History ◽

10.1017/s0008938900009389 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 405-416 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

David F. Lindenfeld

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Economic History ◽

Economic Thought ◽

Historical School ◽

History Of ◽

Laissez Faire ◽

Two Stages

It is a commonplace of German historiography and the history of economic thought in particular that German economists pursued a Sonderweq in the second half of the nineteenth century, rejecting the theoretical bases of laissez-faire doctrines that were common in Britain and France in favor of a study of economic history. This is generally viewed as taking place in two stages: first, an “older German historical school” that began to question the accepted dogmas of Smithian economics beginning in the 1840s, with the work of Wilhelm Roscher, Bruno Hildebrand, and Karl Knies. This allegedly preceded the “younger historical school” of the 1870s and after, dominated by Gustav Schomoller, Lujo Brentano, and Georg Friedrich Knapp. In calling the existence of this older school a myth, I want to draw on the currently fashionable connotation of the word “myth”: to say, in other words, that this received notion contains some important elements of truth—but masked in such a way as to distort its significance.

How Homo economicus lost her mind and how we can revive her

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x1800033x ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

Author(s):

Peter DeScioli

Keyword(s):

Economic Thought ◽

Homo Economicus ◽

Economic Theories ◽

Target Article ◽

History Of ◽

The Mind ◽

And Behavior

AbstractThe target article by Boyer & Petersen (B&P) contributes a vital message: that people have folk economic theories that shape their thoughts and behavior in the marketplace. This message is all the more important because, in the history of economic thought, Homo economicus was increasingly stripped of mental capacities. Intuitive theories can help restore the mind of Homo economicus.

Documents on and from the History of Economic Thought and Methodology

10.1016/s0743-4154(2008)26_part_3 ◽

2008 ◽

Keyword(s):

Economic Thought ◽

Documents from the History of Economic Thought

10.1016/s0743-4154(2007)25_part_2 ◽

2007 ◽

Keyword(s):

Economic Thought ◽

Essays of a “comparatively progressive” economist (On the 150th birth anniversary of Vladimir Geleznoff)

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2019-10-135-145 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 135-145

Author(s):

Viktor A. Popov

Keyword(s):

Economic Theory ◽

Political Economy ◽

Economic Thought ◽

The Political ◽

Russian History ◽

Working Ability ◽

Intellectual Inquiry ◽

Deep comprehension of the advanced economic theory, the talent of lecturer enforced by the outstanding working ability forwarded Vladimir Geleznoff scarcely at the end of his thirties to prepare the publication of “The essays of the political economy” (1898). The subsequent publishing success (8 editions in Russia, the 1918-year edition in Germany) sufficiently demonstrates that Geleznoff well succeded in meeting the intellectual inquiry of the crossroad epoch of the Russian history and by that taking the worthful place in the history of economic thought in Russia. Being an acknowledged historian of science V. Geleznoff was the first and up to now one of the few to demonstrate the worldwide community of economists the theoretically saturated view of Russian economic thought in its most fruitful period (end of XIX — first quarter of XX century).

Thorstein Veblen: A View from the 21st Century

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2007-7-73-85 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 73-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

R. Nureev

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Institutional Economics ◽

Economic Thought ◽

Thorstein Veblen ◽

The article provides a description of T. Veblen’s views, showing his place in the history of economic thought. The author analyzes the context of Veblen’s life and work and considers different aspects of his theoretical legacy. Special attention is paid to the discussion of Veblen’s role in the development of institutional economics. The author describes in detail the main trends in the development of institutionalism after Veblen.