ABSTRACT
Ironically, the author on whom so much praise has been showered has almost totally fallen into oblivion. His name is not only absent from general contributions to economics but also from many studies devoted to the history of economic thought. He is neither mentioned in the first three editions of Blaug (1962)2 nor in Spiegel (1971), Routh (1975), Brems (1986), Niehans (1990) and Rima (1991). He is mentioned only once in Ekelund and Hébert (1983) and twice in Pribram (1983). The situation is somewhat more favourable in books devoted to the history of economic thought written in his mother tongue, German: see especially Stavenhagen (1957), Schneider (1962) and more recently Brandt (1992) and Baloglou (1995). However, the impression remains that for the community of historians of economic thought taken as a whole the economist under consideration barely existed. To be praised may be the first step to being lost sight of.
