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ADOLF WAGNER (1835- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 235 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WAGNER (1835- )  , See also:German economist, was See also:born at See also:Erlangen on the 25th of See also:March 1835 . Educated at See also:Gottingen and See also:Heidelberg, he was See also:professor of See also:political See also:science at Dorpat and See also:Freiburg, and after 187o at See also:Berlin . A prolific writer on economic problems, he brought out in his study of the subject the See also:close relation which necessarily exists between See also:economics and See also:jurisprudence . He ranks without doubt as one of the most eminent German economists and a distinguished See also:leader of the See also:historical school . His leanings towards See also:Christian See also:socialism made him one of those to whom the appellation of " Katheder-Socialisten " or " socialists of the (professional) See also:chair " was applied, and he was one of the founders of the Verein See also:fur Socialpolitik . In 1871 he undertook, in See also:conjunction with Professor E . Nasse (1829-1890), a new edition of See also:Rau's Lehrbuch der politischen Okonomie, and his own See also:special contributions, the Grundlegung and Finanzwissenschaft, afterwards published separately, are probably his most important See also:works . He approaches economic studies from the point of view that the See also:doctrine of the See also:jus naturae, on which the physiocrats reared their economic structure, has lost its hold on belief, and that the old a priori and See also:absolute conceptions of See also:personal freedom and See also:property have given way with it . He See also:lays down that the economic position of the individual, instead of depending merely on so-called natural rights or even on his natural See also:powers, is conditioned by the contemporary juristic See also:system, which is itself an historical product . These conceptions, therefore, of freedom and property, See also:half economic, half juristic, require a fresh examination . See also:Wagner accordingly investigates, before anything else, the conditions of the economic See also:life of the community, and in sub-ordination to this, determines the See also:sphere of the economic freedom of the individual . Among his works are Beitrage zur Lehre von den Banken (1857), System der deutschen Zettelbankgesetzgebung (1870—1873) and Agrar- and Industriestaat (1902) .

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brother, See also:HERMANN WAGNER (1840— ), a distinguished geographer, joined the See also:Geographical See also:Institute of Justus See also:Perthes in 1868, and was editor of the statistical See also:section of the Gothaer Almanack up to 1876 . In 1872 he founded See also:Die Bevolkerung der Erde, a See also:critical See also:review of See also:area and See also:population, and in 1880 he was appointed professor of See also:geography at Gottingen . He was editor of the Geographisches Jahrbuch from 1880 to 1908 . His publications include Lehrbuch der Geographie (7th ed., 1903) and Methodischer Schulatlas (12th ed., 1907) .

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