ABSTRACT
THE death of Professor Knapp on February 20 has removed from the German scientific world one of the most striking figures of what may be termed the third epoch of political economy in Germanythe first being the ‘cameralistic,’ the best-known names of which were Seckendorff and Justi; the second corresponding to the classic period in England and culminating in such works as those of Thünen and Hermann-the outstanding features of which were ‘Sozialpolitik’ and ‘Historical Method.’ Along with Schmoller, Wagner, Bücher, Brentano, although different from everyone of them in many ways, George Frederic Knapp will always be associated with all its merits and some of its shortcomings.
