Bertram Schefold is Senior Professor at the Department of Economics, Goethe-Universität, Germany. He has published more than 40 books and 250 articles on economic theory, history of economic thought, energy policy and general economic policy. He edited the series Klassiker der Nationalökonomie.
Schefold invites the reader to understand the history of economic thought not as a discipline which primarily wants to discover the earliest author to have expressed a thought which might still be important today. The texts are really interesting only if we recognise a 'political' dimension and try to interpret them as expressions of the will to shape, to preserve or to change the world , he writes. Schefold [...] tries to build a bridge from the traditional history of economic theories to a universal history of economic thought. - Gerald Braunberger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) ...this is a truly great achievement in the history of economic thought; it is comparable to that of Schumpeter's when he wrote the History of Economic Analysis in the middle of the previous century. - Kiichiro Yagi, Setsunan University, Neyagawa city, Osaka, Japan