Samuel Pufendorf and the Emergence of Economics as a Social Science

This book discusses Samuel Pufendorf and his contributions to the development of the European Enlightenment and the emergence of economics as a social science. Born in 1632 in Saxony, Pufendorf wrote widely on natural law, ethics, jurisprudence, and polit

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Jurgen G. Backhaus Günther Chaloupek Hans A. Frambach  Editors

Samuel Pufendorf and the Emergence of Economics as a Social Science

The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences Volume 24

Series editors Jurgen G. Backhaus Emeritus Professor of Krupp Chair in Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology University of Erfurt Erfurt, Germany Günther Chaloupek Former Director, Department of Economic Research Austrian Chamber of Labour Vienna, Austria Hans A. Frambach Department of Economics University of Wuppertal Wuppertal, Germany

The European heritage in economics and the social sciences is largely locked in languages other than English. Witness such classics as Storch’s Cours d'Economie Politique, Wicksell’s Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen and Geld, Zins und Güterpreise or Pareto’s Trattato di Sociologia Generale. Since about 1937, partly caused by the forced exodus of many scholars from the German language countries and the international reactions to this event, English has become the undisputed primary language of economics and the social sciences. For about one generation, this language shift did not result in a loss of access to the European non-English sources. However, after foreign language requirements were dropped as entry prerequisites for receiving the PhD at major research universities, the European heritage in economics and the social sciences has become largely inaccessible to the vast majority of practicing scholars. In this series, we hope to publish works that address this problem in a threefold manner. An aspect of the European heritage in a language other than English should be critically documented and discussed, reconstructed and assessed from a modern scientific point of view, and tested with respect to its relevance for contemporary economic, social, or political discourse. We welcome submissions that fit this bill in order to make the European heritage in economics and the social sciences available to the international research community of scholars in economics and the social sciences. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/5902

Jurgen G. Backhaus  •  Günther Chaloupek Hans A. Frambach Editors

Samuel Pufendorf and the Emergence of Economics as a Social Science

Editors Jurgen G. Backhaus Emeritus Professor of Krupp Chair in Public Finance and Fiscal Sociology University of Erfurt Erfurt, Thüringen, Germany

Günther Chaloupek Former Director Department of Economic Research Austrian Chamber of Labour Vienna, Austria

Hans A. Frambach Department of Economics University of Wuppertal Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

ISSN 1572-1744     ISSN 2197-5892 (electronic) The European Heritage in Economics and the Social Sciences ISBN 978-3-030-49790-3    ISBN 978-3-030-49791-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49791-0 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of

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