ABSTRACT
In this chapter the influence of the German Historical School of economics in Finland will be examined. The central theme is the examination of the period of organization of the economics profession in the turn of the century in which the Finnish Economic Association Kansantaloudellinen Yhdistys played an important role. Two factors above all separate a modern profession from a premodern one: (1) expertise that is based on specialized science is organized as a central basis of qualification and justification in practising a modern profession and (2) a modern profession is institutionally specialized and organized as a professional organization (Konttinen, 1991: 217). In Finland the economics profession just began to specialize and organize in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the turn of the century.1
