Lujo Brentano

Lujo Brentano (short form of his name, Ludwig Joseph, born December 19, 1844 in Aschaffenburg, † September 9, 1931 in Munich) was a German economist and social reformer.

Life

Lujo Brentano was born into the prominent Italian-born Catholic intellectuals Brentano family: the siblings of his father Christian Brentano were the writer Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim, his older brother, the philosopher and psychologist Franz Brentano.

After attending high school in Augsburg and Aschaffenburg Brentano studied at the universities of Dublin, Münster, Munich, Heidelberg ( Dr. iur., 1866), Würzburg, Göttingen ( Ph.D., 1867) and Berlin ( habilitation in political science, 1871). He was a professor at the universities of Breslau (1872-1882), Strasbourg (1882-1888), Vienna (1888-1889), Leipzig (1889-1891) and most recently Munich ( 1891-1916 ). In 1874 he married Valeska hereditary kingdom ( born January 13 in 1851; † October 28, 1918 ). They had a daughter, Sophie, called Sissi ( 1874-1956 ).

Brentano was a " catheter socialist" - that is, reformist, and representative of a "third way " - a founding member of the Association for Social Policy and an important representative of the Historical School. Nevertheless, he used already rudimentary formal methods.

In his writings, he reasoned, among other things, why the unions and their work ordnance are a constitutive element of the market economy; only they would make the offer forced, under which stood wage workers, more elastic. So Brentano sat in contrast to other " socialists " less on the state as a protective instance of the working class, but also on the principle equal opposite the labor market parties at the conclusion of collective agreements; in this sense it can be understood as formerly " social liberal".

Brentano published since 1898 at irregular intervals contributions to social and economic policy in Theodor Barth's magazine The Nation and since 1901 also in Friedrich Naumann's weekly paper The Help. Although he initially joined any political party, Brentano exercised significant influence by his publications, personal correspondence, and appearances as a guest speaker at party conferences influence on the social and economic orientation of Barth's free Inniger Association and Naumann from National Social Association. Together with Gerhart von Schulze- Gaevernitz he also had a decisive role in the accession of the National Social Liberals for association; both occurred in 1903 following the successful merger of the party.

1914 Brentano was one of the signatories of the Manifesto of the 93

Aftereffect

His influence on the social market economy and also personally to the leaders of the foundation phase of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Theodor Heuss was his student and graduate student ) can hardly be overestimated. One of his students, the Japanese Fukuda Tokuzo (surname Fukuda, 1874 to 1930, from 1898 a three-year stay in Germany and later a professor at the Graduate School of Tōkyō, today's renowned Hitotsubashi University, and at the Keio Gijuku University ) brought parts of his teaching to Japan, turned against the influence of Marxism in the emerging social sciences and afforded in this context, a famous theory debate with Kawakami Hajime about the nature of capitalism. Brentano's influence, however, lies more in his role as a teacher and social reformer than as economists. Its written in old age autobiography (1931, see below) is perhaps his most important work.

Works (selection)

• The workers guilds of the present. 2 vols (Leipzig 1871, and 1872): Duncker & Humblot; New edition (Boston 2002): Adamant.
• The workers insurance in accordance with the present economic order. (Leipzig 1879): Duncker & Humblot.
• My polemic with Karl Marx. At the same time a contribution to the question of the progress of the working class and its causes. (Berlin 1890): Walther & Apolant; New edition (London 1976): Slienger.
• Labor recruitment and training of the labor contract. (Leipzig 1890): Duncker & Humblot.
• Ethics and Economics in history. (Munich 1901): Wolf; New edition (Paderborn 2011): saltwater.
• Attempt at a theory of needs. (Munich 1908): Bavarian Academy of Sciences; New edition (Saarbrücken 2006): Müller.
• How to study economics. (Munich 1919): Reinhardt.
• The economy end man in history. ( Leipzig, 1923): I; Edited and introduced by Richard remake Bräu and Hans G. Nutzinger ( Marburg, 2008): Metropolis.
• Specific conditions of the economy. ( Leipzig, 1924): I; New edition edited by Hans G. Nutzinger ( Marburg 2003): Metropolis.
• The economic life of the ancient world. ( Jena 1929): Fischer.
• My life in the struggle for social development in Germany. ( Jena 1931): Diederichs; New edition edited by Richard Brau and Hans G. Nutzinger ( Marburg 2004): Metropolis.
• The working man and the science of the economy. Writings on economics and social policy ( 1877-1924 ). edited and introduced by Richard Brau and Hans G. Nutzinger ( Marburg, 2006): Metropolis.