ABSTRACT
In the German-speaking countries, Carl Menger’s methodological attack on the historical school stimulated an active, sometimes acerbic, and abiding controversy. In the years immediately after the Untersuchungen was published in 1883, Gustav von Schmoller led the counter-attack. However, well into the twentieth century, others – notably Max Weber and Werner Sombart – addressed at length the problems that had been unearthed in the Methodenstreit.1
