Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (October 21, 1817 - June 4, 1894) was a German economist from Hanover.
He studied at Göttingen, where he became a member of Corps Hannovera, and Berlin, and obtained a professorship at Göttingen in 1844 and subsequently at Leipzig in 1848.
The main origins of the historical school of political economy may be traced to Roscher. Its fundamental principles are dated, though with some hesitation, and with an unfortunat...
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Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (October 21, 1817 - June 4, 1894) was a German economist from Hanover.
He studied at Göttingen, where he became a member of Corps Hannovera, and Berlin, and obtained a professorship at Göttingen in 1844 and subsequently at Leipzig in 1848.
The main origins of the historical school of political economy may be traced to Roscher. Its fundamental principles are dated, though with some hesitation, and with an unfortunate contrast of the historical with the philosophical method, in his Grundriss zu Vorlesungen über die Staatswirtschaft nach geschichtlicher Methode (1843).
Roscher tried to establish the laws of economic development by using the historical method from the investigation of histories legal, political, cultural and other aspects.
Roscher developed a cyclical theory where nations and their economies pass through youth, manhood and senile decay.
“The method of a science is of greater significance by far than any single discovery, however amazing the...
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