The history of the economic thought in the test of the "universalism" of Othmar Spann

Jean-Jacques GISLAIN ()

Cahiers d'économie Politique, 2006, issue 51, pages 49-68

Abstract: The Austrian economist Othmar Spann (1878-1950) proposes term "universalism" to qualify, in opposition to the "individualism", the doctrine and the method consisting in putting in first totality, society, in the logical order of "functional" analysis of economic facts. Spann applies then this universalist approach to his reading of the history of the economic thought. He sets so a lineage of universalist economists (Müller, Fichte, Baader, Stein, List, Thünen, Roscher, Hildebrand, Knies, Bernhardi, Schmoller) against the lineage of the individualistic economists (Smith, Ricardo, Rau, Say, Menger, Jevons).

JEL-codes: A11 A13 B19 B29 B31 B59 P49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006

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