Adolph Lowe

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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 Robert Heilbroner. He was born in Stuttgart and died in Wolfenbüttel.

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 ISBN 3-89518-081-5
• Volker Caspari, Bertram Schefold: Franz Oppenheimer und Adolph Lowe. Zwei Wirtschaftswissenschaftler der Frankfurter Universität. 312 Seiten, 1996 ISBN 3-89518-088-2
• 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 ISBN 3-89308-265-4

External links[]

• Biography at HET
• Biography at School of Cooperative Individualism
• Archive holdings and short bio, State University of New York, Albany
• Newspaper clippings about Adolph Lowe in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW