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Adolph Lowe (born ''Adolf Löwe''; 4 March 1893 – 3 June 1995) was a German sociologist and economist. His best known student was
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Major publications of Adolph Lowe

*''Arbeitslosigkeit und Kriminalität'', 1914. *"Zur Methode der Kriegswirtschaftsgesetzgebung", 1915, ''Die Hilfe'' *"Die freie Konkurrenz", 1915, ''Die Hilfe'' *''Wirtschaftliche Demobilisierung'', 1916. *"Mitteleuropäische Demobilisierung", 1917, ''Wirtschaftszeitung der Zentralmächte''. *"Die ausführende Gewalt in der Ernährungspolitik", 1917, ''Europäische Staats- und Wirtschaftszeitung'' *"Die Massenpreisung im System der Volksernährung", 1917, ''Europäische Staats- und Wirtschaftszeitung'' *"Die Fragen der Übergangswirtschaft", 1918, ''Die Woche'' *"Die Arbeiter- und Soldatenräte in der Demobilmachung", 1919, ''Europäische Staats- und Wirtschaftszeitung'' *''"Die Neue Demokratie", 1919, ''Der Spiegel'' *"Die Soziologie des modernen Judentums", 1920, ''Der Spiegel'' *"Zur gegenwartige Stand der Konjukturforschung in Deutschland", 1925,in Bonn and Palyi, editors, ''Die Wirtschaftswissenshaft nach dem Kriege'', 1925. *"Chronik der Weltwirtschaft", 1925, ''WWA'' *"Wie ist Konjunkturtheorie uberhaupt möglich?", 1926, ''WWA'' (transl. 1997, "How is Business Cycle Theory Possible at All?", ''Structural Change and Economic Dynamics'') *"Weitere Bemerkungen zur Konjunkturforschung", 1926, ''Wirtschaftdienst'' *"Zur Möglichkeit der Konjukturtheorie: Antwort auf Frank Oppenheimer", 1927, ''WWA'' *"Über den Einfluss monetärer Faktoren auf der Konjukturzyklus", 1928, in Diel, editor, ''Beiträge zur Wirstschaftstheorie'' *"Kredit und Konjuktur", 1929, in Boese, editor, ''Wandlungen des Kapitalismus Auslandsanleihen'' *"Reparationspolitik", 1930, ''Neue Blätter für den Sozialismus'' *"Lohnabbau als Mittel der Krisenbekämpfung?", 1930, ''Neue Blätter für den Sozialismus'' *"Der Sinn der Weltwirschaftskrise", 1931, ''Neue Blätter für den Sozialismus'' *"Das gegenwartige Bildungsproblem der deutschen Universität", 1931, ''Die Erziehung'' *"Über den Sinn und die Grenzen verstehender Nationalökonomie", 1932, ''WWA'' *"Der Stand und die nächste Zukunft der Konjukturforschung in Deutschland", 1933, ''Festschrift fur Arthur Spiethoff'' *"Some Theoretical Considerations of the Meaning of Trend", 1935, ''Proceedings Manchester Statistical Society'' *''Economics and Sociology: A plea for cooperation in the social sciences'', 1935. *"Economic Analysis and Social Structure", 1936, ''Manchester School''. *"The Social Productivity of Technical Improvements", 1937, ''Manchester School'' *"The Task of Democratic Education: pre-Hitler Germany and England", 1937, ''Social Research'' *''The Price of Liberty: A German on contemporary Britain'', 1937. *"The Turn of the Boom", 1938, ''Manchester Statistical Society'' *''The Universities in Transformation'', 1940. *"A Reconsideration of the Law of Supply and Demand", 1942, ''Social Research''. *"The Trend in World Economics", 1944, ''American J of Econ and Sociology'' *"On the Mechanistic Approach in Economics", 1951, ''Social Research''. *"A Structural Model of Production", 1952, ''Social Research'' *"National Economic Planning", 1952, in Hanley, editor, ''Survey of Contemporary Economics'' *"The Classical Theory of Economic Growth", 1954, ''Social Research''. *"Structural Analysis of Real Capital Formation", 1955, in Abramovitz, editor, ''Capital Formation and Economic Growth''. *"The Practical Uses of Theory: Comment", 1959, ''Social Research''. *"Wirtschaftstheorie - der nächtste Schritt", 1959, ''Hamburger Jahrbuch fur Wirtschafts und Gesellschaftspolitik'' *''On Economic Knowledge: Toward a science of political economics'', 1965. *"The Normative Roots of Economic Value",1967, in Hook, ''Human Values and Economic Policy''. *"Toward a Science of Political Economics", 1969, in Heilbroner, editor, ''Economic Means and Social Ends'' *"Economic Means and Social Ends: A Rejoinder", 1969, in Heilbroner, editor, ''Economic Means and Social Ends'' *"Toward a Science of Political Economics", 1970, in ''Phenomenology and Social Reality''. *"Adam Smith's System of Economic Growth", 1975, in Skinner and Wilson, editors, ''Essays on Adam Smith'' *''The Path of Economic Growth'', 1976. *"Prometheus Unbound: A new world in the making", 1978, in Spicker, editor, ''Organism, Medicine and Metaphysics'' *"What is Evolutionary Economics? Remarks upon receipt of the Veblen-Commons Award", 1980, ''Journal of Economic Issues''. *"Is Economic Value Still a Problem?", 1981, ''Social Research'' *"Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty? A self-critique", 1982, ''Social Research''. *''Has Freedom a Future?'', 1988.


Secondary sources

* Will Lissner
"In memoriam: Adolph Lowe, 1893-1995 - economist"
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, January 1996. * Claus-Dieter Krohn: ''Der Philosophische Ökonom. Zur intellektuellen Biographie Adolph Lowes.'' 240 Seiten, Mai 1996 * Volker Caspari, Bertram Schefold: ''Franz Oppenheimer und Adolph Lowe. Zwei Wirtschaftswissenschaftler der Frankfurter Universität.'' 312 Seiten, 1996 * Claus-Dieter Krohn: ''Vertreibung und Akkulturation deutscher Wirtschaftswissenschaftler nach 1933 am Beispiel A.L.s und der 'University in Exile' an der New School for Social Research in New York'' in: ''Der Exodus aus Nazideutschland und die Folgen. Jüdische Wissenschaftler im Exil'' Hg. Marianne Hassler, Attempto, Tübingen 1997


External links


Biography at HET


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