Fifty Years After the Death of Heinrich Pesch
| Autor: | Johannes Messner |
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| Rok vydání: | 1976 |
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| Zdroj: | Review of Social Economy. 34:117-123 |
| ISSN: | 1470-1162 0034-6764 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00346767600000001 |
| Popis: | When Heinrich Pesch, aged 72, died at the College of St. Ignatius in Valkenburg, Holland, his 5-volume, Lehrbuch der National?ko? nomie (Principles of Political Economy) had already gained full sci? entific recognition. One indication was an invitation he received from Felix Meiner who edited a prestigious compendium of essays to which leading representatives of various schools of economic thought set forth their theories and propositions. Being asked to con? tribute an autobiography and an outline of his teachings constituted public recognition that Pesch was considered to be one of the great economists of his time. His significance consists in the fact that he provided, especially for German Catholics, a broad scientific base to deal with the social problems arising from the prevailing industrial society. A considerable number of leading Catholics of various walks of life had already proposed benevolent, legal and socio-organiza tional solutions to the social question, but economic liberalism con? tinued to rule and the working class turned in large numbers toward socialism. Nothing is more indicative of the situation at that time than the fact that in 1901 Pesch, though approaching his fiftieth year, resolved to go to Berlin to study economics formally. This deci? sion of his is particularly striking in view of the fact that, although he had in the years 1893-1900 already written and published a 2 |
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