ABSTRACT
Finally, after all that has been said, the question “now what?” is raised. It has been discussed what is to be improved on the scheme of our science and the question whether ground-breaking reforms are imminent for our exact system in the near future, for the exact system as we presented and delimited it. It is now worth saying quite a bit about what is to be further done on this system and which paths the further work in the area of pure economy will presumably pursue. Everyone who really feels “at home” in his science must be able to answer these questions, and as long as they are left unanswered—even if it is in brief and with due reserve—the representation of our discipline is not complete, the reader has no clear picture of it. It lies in the nature of the matter that a good measure of subjectivity must also lie in such discussions, and there is certainly not only one way to continue; but the matter is nevertheless, as we have said, of lesser subjective character than a judgment about the value of the discipline, and the reader can, and also must, trust the “specialist” in doing so. So to begin with, we want to indicate the direction of further work on our system and several of its developmental opportunities, at least in an outline, and thereupon, say something about the problems that lie outside of the same, which essentially amounts to a perspective of the area of dynamic.
