Economics as Ethical Economy in the Tradition of the Historical School. Introduction -- One The Older Historical School -- 1 Intention and Failure of W. Roscher’s Historical Method of National Economics -- 2 “Personality” as a Principle of Individual and Institutional Development Lorenz von Stein’s Institutional Theory of a “Labour-Society” -- Two Schmoller’s Contribution to Economics and Economic Ethics -- 3 A Methodological Appraisal of Schmoller’s Research Programm -- 4 The Role of Ethics as Part of the Historical Methods of Schmoller and the Older Historical School -- Three Wilhelm Dilthey’s Foundations of the Historical and Cultural Sciences -- 5 Dilthey’s “Verstehen” Sociology, Philosophy of Culture, and Ethics -- Four Cross Analyses of the Historical School: Historism in Italy and Japan -- 6 Historism and Liberalism in Italy -- 7 Historism and Liberalism in Japan -- Five Systematic Questions of Historism and Social Science in Contemporary Thought -- 8 Institutional Economics, Management Science and the Historical School -- 9 In Search of a Theory Gustav Schmoller on Economic Justice: A Guide to Present Problems in Business Ethics? -- 10 Theoretical Approaches to a Comparison of Economic Systems from a Historical Perspective -- 11 Confucian Culture and Economic Development in East Asia -- 12 Communitarianism, Pragmatism, Historicism -- 13 Is Postmodernism a Neohistorism? On the Absoluteness and the Historicity of History -- 14 Historism in the German Tradition of Social and Economic Thought or: What Is Living and What Is Dead in Historism -- List of Authors and Discussants -- Index of Names.