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The [Verein für Socialpolitik] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |label= (help) (German: [fɛʁˈʔaɪn fyːɐ̯ zoˈtsi̯al.poliˌtːik]; literally: Association for Social Policy), or the German Economic Association,[1] is a society of economists in the German-speaking area.[2]
History
editThe [Verein] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |label= (help) was founded in Eisenach in 1872 as a response to the "social question". Among its founders were eminent economists like Gustav von Schmoller, Lujo Brentano and Adolph Wagner, who sought a middle path between socialist and laissez-faire economic policies. On the contrary, the liberal publicist Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, critical of their "fanciful positions", dubbed them the [[[Kathedersozialisten]]] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |label= (help) (socialists of the chair), meant as pejorative term.[3] Gradually the Verein became less focused on social policy per se, and dealt with wider areas of economic policy and theory, especially after the First World War.[citation needed]
Among its later members were prominent sociologists like Max Weber and Werner Sombart. They took part in the famous Werturteilsstreit with the older generation of the [Verein] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |label= (help) just before the First World War. The [Verein] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |label= (help) was dissolved in 1936 under the Nazis, but was re-created in 1948 at a conference in Marburg.[citation needed]
Today, the [Verein] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |label= (help) is headquartered in Berlin. It currently has around 3,800 individual members and 48 corporate members. It publishes a monograph series, the [Schriften des Vereins für Sozialpolitik] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |label= (help), as well as two journals: the German Economic Review and [[[Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik]]] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |label= (help).[4] The verein annually awards the Gossen Prize to German-speaking economists under the age of 45. Another award given by the association is the Gustav Stolper Prize; it is named after economist Gustav Stolper, and is not subject to any age restrictions.[5]
Important members
edit- Lujo Brentano (1844–1931), German economist and social reformer, co-founder of the Verein
- Karl Bücher (1847–1930), German economist
- Gustav Cohn (1840–1919), German economist
- Constantin von Dietze (1891–1973), agronomist, lawyer, economist, and theologian
- Ernst Engel (1821–1896), German statistician and economist
- Walter Eucken (1891–1950), German economist
- Carl Geibel (1842–1910), founding member, German book dealer and publisher
- Martin Hellwig (born 1949), German economist
- Ignaz Jastrow (1856–1937), German economist and historian
- Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842–1926), German economist
- Roland Kirstein (born 1965), German economist and professor
- Emil Lederer (1882–1939), Bohemian-German economist and sociologist
- Wilhelm Lexis (1837–1914), German statistician, economist, and social scientist
- Friedrich Naumann (1860–1919), German liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor
- Karl Rathgen (1856–1921), German Economist
- Alexander Rüstow (1885–1963), German sociologist and economist
- Gerhart von Schulze-Gävernitz (1864–1943), German economist and politician
- Gustav von Schmoller (1838–1917), German economist
- Gustav von Schönberg (1839–1908), German economist
- Max Sering (1857–1939), German economist
- Hans-Werner Sinn (born 1948), German economist
- Werner Sombart (1863–1941), German sociologist and economist
- Arthur Spiethoff (1873–1957), German economist
- Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936), German sociologist and philosopher
- Adolph Wagner (1835–1917), German economist
- Adolf Weber (1876–1963), German economist
- Alfred Weber (1868–1958), German economist and sociologist
- Max Weber (1864–1920), German sociologist and economist
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ The Verein für Socialpolitik's English name is "German Economic Association". Retrieved March 16th, 2018.
- ^ von Philippovich, Eugen (1891). "The Verein Für Sozialpolitik". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 5 (2): 220–237. doi:10.2307/1882972. ISSN 0033-5533. JSTOR 1882972.
- ^ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.
- ^ "Cookie Consent | Verein für Socialpolitik e.V".
- ^ "Gustav Stolper Prize". Verein für Socialpolitik. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
Sources
edit- Franz Boese: Geschichte des Vereins für Sozialpolitik, 1872–1932. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1939.
- Dieter Lindenlaub: Richtungskämpfe im Verein für Sozialpolitik: Wissenschaft und Socialpolitik im Kaiserreich vornehmlich vom Beginn des 'Neuen Kurses' bis zum Ausbruch des 1. Weltkrieges (1890–1914). Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1967.
- Steven Leon McClellan, German Economists and the Intersection of Science and Politics: A History of the Verein für Sozialpolitik, 1872-1972. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of History, University Toronto 2022.