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Verein für Socialpolitik

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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

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The [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

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ The Verein für Socialpolitik's English name is "German Economic Association". Retrieved March 16th, 2018.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.
  4. ^ "Cookie Consent | Verein für Socialpolitik e.V".
  5. ^ "Gustav Stolper Prize". Verein für Socialpolitik. Retrieved 2 August 2014.

Sources

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  • 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.
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