This volume is a collection of my essays on Gustav von Schmoller (1838 1917), Max Weber (1864 1920), and Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883 1950), published during the past fifteen years. These three intellectual giants are connected with the German Historical School of Economics in different ways. In the history of economics, the German Historical School has been described as a heterodox group of economic researchers who flourished in the Germ- speaking world throughout the nineteenth century. The definition of a school is always problematic. Even if the core of a certain idea were identified in...