Die Entwicklung ökonomischen Denkens

»The Development of Economic Thinking. A Learning Process« Ever since there have been cultures and states with division of labour and trade, attempts have been made to shape economic conditions. This led to a process of reflection on economic states of affairs, which slowly became economic theory taught and developed further at universities. While the beginnings were embedded in political and ethical theories, a separate discipline, economic theory, emerged from the late Middle Ages. Peter Rosner tells the story of this development from its beginnings to theories from the first half of the 20th century. Methodological assumption: Authors wanted to solve problems and discovered that existing explanations were insufficient, contradictory or simply unclear. Efforts to create more clarity, to find better solutions to new and old problems, gave rise to new explanations. The theories of earlier schools are not presented in this book as alternatives to the prevailing theory, but rather as early attempts to solve economic problems. To the extent that this has been achieved, it is possible to talk of scientific progress in the science of economics. This development does not consist of corrections of the errors immanent in the old concepts and ideas, but in a systematic revision and rethinking of existing ones. von Rosner, Peter