Gustav von Schmoller

Gustav von Schmoller June 1838 June 1917 was the leader of the younger German historical school of economics.

Schmoller was born in Heilbronn. His father was a Wrttemberg civil servant. Young Schmoller studied Staatswissenschaften at the University of Tbingen . In 1861, he obtained an appointment at the Wrttemberg Statistical Department. During his academic career, he held appointments as a professor at the universities of Halle , Strasbourg , and Berlin . After 1899, he represented the University of Berlin in the Prussian House of Lords. He was a leading Sozialpolitiker , and a founder and longtime chairman of the Verein fr Socialpolitik, the German Economic Association, which continues to exist. Schmollers influence on academic policy, economic, social and fiscal reform, and economics as an academic discipline for the time between 1875 and 1910 can hardly be overrated. He was also an outspoken proponent of the assertion of German naval power and the expansion of German overseas empire.

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