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

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  • Jean-Jacques GISLAIN

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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).

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  • Jean-Jacques GISLAIN, 2006. "The history of the economic thought in the test of the "universalism" of Othmar Spann," Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political Economy, L'Harmattan, issue 51, pages 49-68.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpo:journl:y:2006:i:51:p:49-68
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    JEL classification:

    • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • B19 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Other
    • B29 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Other
    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • B59 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Other
    • P49 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Other

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