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The '''{{lang|de|Verein für Socialpolitik}}''' ({{IPA|de|fɐˈʔaɪn fyːɐ̯ zoˈtsi̯al.poliˌtiːk|lang}}; literally: Association for Social Policy), or the '''German Economic Association''',<ref>[https://www.socialpolitik.de/En/homepage The Verein für Socialpolitik's English name is "German Economic Association". Retrieved March 16th, 2018.]</ref> is a society of economists in the German-speaking area.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=von Philippovich |first=Eugen |date=1891 |title=The Verein Für Sozialpolitik |journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=220–237 |doi=10.2307/1882972 |jstor=1882972 |issn=0033-5533}}</ref>
== History == The {{lang|de|Verein}} was founded in Eisenach in 1872 as a response to the "social question". Among its founders were eminent economists like Gustav von Schmoller, Lujo Brentano and Adolph Wagner, who sought a middle path between socialist and laissez-faire economic policies. On the contrary, the liberal publicist Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, critical of their "fanciful positions", dubbed them the {{lang|de|Kathedersozialisten}} (socialists of the chair), meant as pejorative term.<ref name="adb">Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.</ref> Gradually the Verein became less focused on social policy per se, and dealt with wider areas of economic policy and theory, especially after the First World War.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}
Among its later members were prominent sociologists like Max Weber and Werner Sombart. They took part in the famous Werturteilsstreit with the older generation of the {{lang|de|Verein}} just before the First World War. The {{lang|de|Verein}} was dissolved in 1936 under the Nazis, but was re-created in 1948 at a conference in Marburg.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}
Today, the {{lang|de|Verein}} is headquartered in Berlin. It currently has around 3,800 individual members and 48 corporate members. It publishes a monograph series, the {{lang|de|Schriften des Vereins für Sozialpolitik}}, as well as two journals: the ''German Economic Review''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Egger |first=Hartmut |last2=Strecker |first2=Nora M. |date=2024 |title=The 25th Anniversary of the German Economic Review 2.0 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ger-2024-0111/html |journal=German Economic Review |language=en |volume=25 |issue=4 |pages=241–246 |doi=10.1515/ger-2024-0111 |issn=1468-0475|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and {{lang|de|Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik}}.<ref name="Verein für Socialpolitik">{{cite web | url=https://www.socialpolitik.de/En/publications-limited | title=Cookie Consent | Verein für Socialpolitik e.V }}</ref> The verein annually awards the Gossen Prize to German-speaking economists under the age of 45. Another award given by the association is the Gustav Stolper Prize; it is named after economist Gustav Stolper, and is not subject to any age restrictions.<ref name="Verein für Socialpolitik - Gustav Stolper Prize">{{cite web|url=https://www.socialpolitik.de/En/gustav-stolper-prize|title=Gustav Stolper Prize|publisher=Verein für Socialpolitik|access-date=2 August 2014}}</ref>
== Important members == {{Unreferenced section|date=September 2024}}
* Lujo Brentano (1844–1931), German economist and social reformer, co-founder of the Verein * Karl Bücher (1847–1930), German economist * Gustav Cohn (1840–1919), German economist * Constantin von Dietze (1891–1973), agronomist, lawyer, economist, and theologian * Ernst Engel (1821–1896), German statistician and economist * Walter Eucken (1891–1950), German economist * Carl Geibel (1842–1910), founding member, German book dealer and publisher * Martin Hellwig (born 1949), German economist * Ignaz Jastrow (1856–1937), German economist and historian * Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842–1926), German economist * Roland Kirstein (born 1965), German economist and professor * Emil Lederer (1882–1939), Bohemian-German economist and sociologist * Wilhelm Lexis (1837–1914), German statistician, economist, and social scientist * Friedrich Naumann (1860–1919), German liberal politician and Protestant parish pastor * Karl Rathgen (1856–1921), German Economist * Alexander Rüstow (1885–1963), German sociologist and economist * Gerhart von Schulze-Gävernitz (1864–1943), German economist and politician * Gustav von Schmoller (1838–1917), German economist * Gustav von Schönberg (1839–1908), German economist * Max Sering (1857–1939), German economist * Hans-Werner Sinn (born 1948), German economist * Werner Sombart (1863–1941), German sociologist and economist * Arthur Spiethoff (1873–1957), German economist * Ferdinand Tönnies (1855–1936), German sociologist and philosopher * Adolph Wagner (1835–1917), German economist * Adolf Weber (1876–1963), German economist * Alfred Weber (1868–1958), German economist and sociologist * Max Weber (1864–1920), German sociologist and economist
==See also== * German Sociological Association * American Economic Association
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== * Franz Boese: ''Geschichte des Vereins für Sozialpolitik, 1872–1932''. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1939. * Dieter Lindenlaub: ''Richtungskämpfe im Verein für Sozialpolitik: Wissenschaft und Socialpolitik im Kaiserreich vornehmlich vom Beginn des 'Neuen Kurses' bis zum Ausbruch des 1. Weltkrieges (1890–1914)''. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1967. * Steven Leon McClellan, German Economists and the Intersection of Science and Politics: A History of the Verein für Sozialpolitik, 1872–1972. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of History, University Toronto 2022.
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050205005201/http://www.socialpolitik.org/vfs.php?mode=start&lang=2 Official Homepage of the Verein für Socialpolitik]
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