This book provides an overview of 200 years of German economic thought from the eighteenth century to the Social Market.

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: from Cameralism to Ordoliberalism; 2. Cameralism and the science of government; 3. Die Vernunft des List. National economy and the critique of cosmopolitan economy; 4. Historical economics, the Methodenstreit, and the economics of Max Weber; 5. The Handelshochschulen and the formation of Betriebswirtschaftslehre, 1898¿1925; 6. The Logical Structure of the Economic World - the rationalist economics of Otto Neurath; 7. Capitalism, totalitarianism and the legal order of National Socialism; 8. The genealogy of the Social Market Economy: 1937¿48; 9. The New Economic Order and European economic integration; Bibliography; Index.