An attempt to provide a formal analysis of joint production, the text of which was originally the author's PhD thesis. The work is designed to lead from the most abstract and general concepts of the theory of value to applications in the areas of the measurement of capital and growth, of international trade, and of natural resources.

In this volume, continuities and discontinuities between Historical School of Economics and Old Institutional Economics are examined with regard to common research objectives and methods. Similarly, those between these two economic movements and New Institutional Economics as well as new economic sociology are discussed. The following questions functioned as a guideline for the contributing economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers: Can we meaningfully speak of the Historical School of Economics (HSE) as an economic research program? What are the commonalities between the HSE and...

(1) Manche mogen die Aufnahme Marshalls in diese Liste anfech ten und wUrden Walras' Elements of Pure Economics (Origi nal: Elements d'economie politique pure, ou theorie de la richesse sociale) als die profundere und logisch konsisten tere Darstellung der neoklassischen okonomischen Theorie vorziehen. In meinen Augen fUhrte Marshalls Erkenntnis der Grenzen deduktiver Uberlegungen und der Unmoglichkeit, ein auf wenigen grundlegenden Axiomen beruhendes 'reines Mo dell' zu konstruieren, jedoch zu fruchtbareren Resultaten als die eingleisige Verfolgung einer axiomatischen Wert theorie. (2) Die...