Investigations into the Method of the Social Sciences

Part One: Economics and History

• I. Research in Economics
• II. The Formal Nature of Theoretical Economics
• III. The Special Nature of Theoretical Knowledge
• IV. Research in General and in Particular
• V. Exact and Realistic-Empirical Orientations
• VI. Theory and History as Inseparable Disciplines
• VII. The Dogma of Self-Interest
• VIII. The Charge of "Atomism"

Part Two: The Historical Point of View

• Introduction
• I. Theoretical Economics
• II. Pseudo-Historical Orientations
• III. Economic Institutions and Normative Laws

Part Three: The Organic View of Social Phenomena

• I. Social Phenomena and Natural Organisms
• II. Unintended Results of Historical Development

Part Four: The Study of History Throughout the Ages

• I. Ancient Roots of the Historical School
• II. The German Historical School Ignores the Historical School of Jurists
• III. The German Historical School of Political Economy

Appendix

• I. The National Economy
• II. Theoretical Economics and Its Laws
• III. Practical Economics and Theoretical Economics
• IV. Economic Terminology and Classification
• V. Human Action and Laws of Nature
• VI. Economic Needs and Ends
• VII. Aristotle's Theory of the Origin of the State
• VIII. The "Organic" Origin of Law
• IX. The Ethical Orientation

Index