The Socialism of to-day

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Identifikator:: 835096955

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-28834

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Laveleye, Émile de

Title:: The Socialism of to-day

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Field & Tuer

Year of publication:: 1884

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XLIV, 331 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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2/6 THE SOCIALISM OF TO-DAY. tion on the part of authority. This point of view was further developed with great force by Adolf Wagner, professor at the University of Berlin, in his famous address on the Social Question,* * * § in an article on private property, and in his “Financial Science.”f Furthermore, A. Rosier, professor at Rostock, in his critical works on the fundamental principles of Adam Smith ; Brentano, professor at the University of Breslau, and now of Strasburg, in his fine book on the Working Men's Guilds of our epoch ; $ Held, professor at Bonn and after wards at Berlin, in his article on the present conflict of principles in Political Economy ; § and Engel, the eminent director of the Bureau of Statistics at Berlin, in an article written in 1867 on the contract of hiring labour, have all admitted that the notion of what is just and fair should preside over and influence free contract I am citing only the principal works which prepared the way for the new school. Afterwards, when these doctrines became the subjects of polemics, numerous publications appeared on both sides. The idea of gathering together the partisans of the new Economic School in an annual congress emanated, it is said, from Roscher. The session of 1872 at Eisenach was a great success, and excited considerable attention. Besides the pro fessors already named, the following were to be seen there ;—■ Nasse of Bonn, Gneist of Berlin, Knapp of Leipzig, Conrad of Halle, Hildebrand of Jena, Holtzendorf of Berlin, now of Munich, Knies of Heidelberg, Neumann of Basel, now of Tübingen, and, in addition, a large number of deputies, states men, higher officials, proprietors, and eminent men. Professor Schmoller, in his opening address, freely admitted that there was, in our times, a social question. “ The marked division of classes in the midst of existing society,” he said, “ the open war between masters and workmen, between owners and pro letarians, and the danger, still distant but threatening the future, of a social revolution, have for some years caused * Die Soziale Frage, 1872. + Kau'sehe Lehrbuch der Finanzauissenschaft, 1870. j Arbeite:-gilden der Gegenwart, 1871. § Gegenwärtige Principienstreit in der Nationaloekonomie.

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