Wilhelm Roscher was the founding figure of the German Historical School of economics, which challenged the abstract universalism of classical British political economy by insisting that economic life must be understood in its historical and cultural context. His Principles of Political Economy, translated into English, was an important bridge between German and Anglo-American economic thought in the nineteenth century.
This first volume presents Roscher’s systematic framework for understanding production, value, and social wealth through a historically informed lens. Download this free public-domain EPUB for a key text in the history of economic theory.