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Knies, Karl Gustav Adolf (1821–1898)

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Karl Knies was born in Marburg, the son of a police employee. He studied history and political science in Marburg, and in 1846 was appointed university lecturer. In 1855, after a break in his career due to political problems, he was appointed professor in Freiburg. He transferred to Heidelberg in 1865, where he taught until l896.

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  • 1850. Die Statistik als selbständige Wissenschaft. Kassel: Verlag der J. Luckhardt’schen Buchhandlung.

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  • 1853. Die politische Ökonomie vom Standpunkt der geschichtlichen Methode. Braunschweig: Schwetschke. 2nd edn, Die politische Ökonomie vom geschichtlichen Standpunkt, 1883.

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  • 1862. Zur Lehre vom volkswirtschaftlichen Güterverkehr, vom Geld, und vom Kredit. Freiburg.

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  • Cohn, G. 1899. Prof. K. Knies (Obituary). Economic Journal 9, 489.

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  • Weber, M. 1903–6. Roscher und Knies und die logischen Probleme der historischen Nationalökonomie. Tübingen: Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre, 1922.

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Schefold, B. (2008). Knies, Karl Gustav Adolf (1821–1898). In: Durlauf, S.N., Blume, L.E. (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-58802-2_897

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