拉着手刹的移民:弗里德里希·a·卢茨的内部方法

History of Economics eJournal Pub Date : 2021-06-02 DOI:10.2139/ssrn.3858831

Lachezar Grudev

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本文重构了德国经济学家弗里德里希·卢茨(1901-1975)走向美国经济学的路径。他与以前的老师、弗莱堡学派的创始人沃尔特·欧肯(Walter Eucken)的信件构成了这篇论文的一个重要但尚未被发掘的来源。通过卢茨的案例，爱德展示了上世纪30年代末德国和盎格鲁-撒克逊经济学之间日益扩大的鸿沟。在他的祖国德国，卢茨接受的是方法论和制度上的经济学训练，这与主导盎格鲁-撒克逊学术界的数学经济学有着根本的不同。他意识到，如果他不适应新的方法，如果他不放弃德国传统的方法，他在美国的学术生涯是不可能的。这就引起了他内心的方法论斗争。1938年移民后，他不断感到怀疑和紧张，因为他深信，如果不考虑制度，数学经济学注定无法解释宏观经济现象的发生和本质。尽管卢茨在普林斯顿大学有着辉煌的职业生涯，但直到1953年他在苏黎世教授历史和社会经济学理论之后，他才能够调和这种内在的方法论。

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Emigration with a Pulled Handbrake: Friedrich A. Lutz’s Internal Methodenstreit

My paper reconstructs the path of German economist Friedrich A. Lutz (1901–1975) to American
economics. The correspondence with his former teacher Walter Eucken, the founder of the Freiburg
School, constitutes a crucial and yet unexplored source for the paper. Through Lutz’s case, I
demonstrate the growing gulf between German and Anglo-Saxon economics during the late 1930s.
In his native Germany, Lutz was trained in methodologically and institutionally focused
economics, which differed fundamentally from the mathematical economics dominating Anglo-
Saxon academia. He realized that an academic career in the US would be impossible if he did not
adapt to the new methods and if he did not abandon the methods of the German tradition. This
gave rise to his internal Methodenstreit. After the emigration in 1938, he constantly experienced
doubts and tensions because he was convinced that without considering institutions, mathematical
economics was doomed to fail to explain the occurrence and essence of macroeconomic
phenomena. Despite his stellar career at Princeton, it was only after 1953 at Zurich, where he taught history and theory of socioeconomics for the rest of his life, that Lutz could reconcile this internal Methodenstreit.

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