Preface.- Theory of Capitalism, Historism, and Economics in Joseph Schumpeter, Emil Lederer, and Franz Oppenheimer: YUICHI SHIONOYA, Joseph Schumpeter and the German Historical School; HARALD HAGEMANN, Emil Lederer (1882-1939): Economical and Sociological Analyst and Critic of Capitalist Development; DIETER HASELBACH, Franz Oppenheimer's Theory of Capitalism and of a Third Path; The Theory of Capitalism, the Historical School, and the Theory of the Social Market Economy in Ordo-Liberalism and Neo-Liberalism:Walter Eucken, Alfred Muller-Armack, Franz Boehm, Friedrich Hayek: HELGE PEUKERT, Walter Eucken (1891-1950) and the Historical School; KNUT WOLFGANG NOERR, Franz Boehm and the Theory of the Private Law Society; CHRISTIAN WATRIN, Alfred Muller-Armack - Economic Policy Maker and Sociologist of Religion; MANFRED E.STREIT and MICHAEL WOHLGEMUTH, The Market Economy and the State. Hayekian and Ordoliberal Conceptions; The Critique of Capitalism in Hilferding and in the Franfurt School: JONAS ZONINSEIN, Rudolf Hilferding's Theory of Finance Capitalism and Today's World Financial Markets; HARRY F. DAHMS, The Early Frankfurt School Critique of Capitalism: Critical Theory Between Pollock's 'State Capitalism' and the Critique of Instrumental Reason; The Theory and Critique of Capitalism and Economic Ethics in Solidarism (Christian Social Thought): Heinrich Pesch and Gustav Gundlach: PETER KOSLOWSKI, Solidarism, Capitalism, and Economic Ethics in Heinrich Pesch; ANTON RAUSCHER, Theory and Critique of Capitalism in Gustav Gundlach; Historism in Other Schools of Economics: KIICHIRO YAGI, Intensive and Extensive Mobilisation in the Japanese Economy: An Interpretation of Japanese Capitalism in Historical Perspective; HANS DE GEER, The Historical School in Sweden: A Sketch; Historism in Economic Law: SIBYLLE HOFER, Jurisprudnce, History, National Economics After 1850;Historism, Relativism, and the Critique of Historicism: ADAM J. CHMIELEWSKI, Karl Popper's Critique of Historicism, the Historical School, and the Contemporary Debate; ANNETTE WITTKAU-HORGBY, Does Historism Mean Relativism ? Remarks on the Debate on Historism in the German Political Economy of the Late 19th Century.- List of Authors and Discussants.- Index of Names