Heinrich Pesch Book order

In his five-volume encyclopedic synthesis of economics up to his time, Pesch (1854-1926) developed the solidaristic economic system as an alternative to both individualistic capitalism and collective socialism. Unlike most modern economists, he avoids mathematical symbols and bases his claim to science on the systematic manner he uses to presents the course of the economic process from production to exchange and the pricing process, to income and the basis for distributing it among the various factors that contribute to the production of goods and services. Edwin Mellen is dividing each original volume into two, paged and indexed separately. Rupert J. Ederer (economics, State U. of New York-Buffalo) translates from the final German edition of each, for the first volume, the 1924 edition, revised from 1904 and 1904 editions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This is the first English translation of the works of Heinrich Pesch, SJ (1854-1926). Pesch, a German Jesuit scholar and economist, wrote the longest, most exhaustive economics text ever written, one that deserves to be regarded as a kind of Summa Economica.

Heinrich Pesch on Solidarist Economics presents excerpts from Lehrbuch der Nationalökonomie, written by Pesch, and probably the longest economics textbook ever written, in English for the first time. This five volume work appeared in several editions in German between 1905 and 1926. With this text, Pesch created one of the few original economics works, in which he proposed the solidarist system of human work in juxtaposition to individualistic capitalism and collectivistic socialism, both of which he critiqued and opposed. Through this proposal, he also introduced a social philosphy, solidarism. The translator provides some of the most representative excerpts to demonstrate the nucleus of what the German Jesuit scholar attempted to accomplish in his textbook. His ideas prominently impacted the Roman Catholic Church's social teachings from 1931 through the present teachings of Pope John Paul II.