ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the influence exerted by the German Historical School on economists and economic historians between 1870 and 1914. It argues that the German Historical School is an important factor in the development of economics and sociology in Belgium and plays a crucial role in the emergence of the discipline of economic history. At the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century's broad support developed for economic and social policies aims at improving the living conditions of the majority of the population. Traces of the legacy of the school that can be found in the emergence of the discipline of economic history, in the increased interest in various kinds of empirical research, and in the search for innovative forms of economic theory and social policy. The German Historical School is an important factor in the orientation of a number of historians towards economic history.
