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Yuichi Shionoya, [1997]. Schumpeter and the Idea of Social Science: A Metatheoretical Study. New York: Cambridge University Press. Index. 354 pp. ISBN 0521 43034 8.

This book was originally published in the Japanese language in 1995 under the title Shumpeta-teki shiko. The author's masterful command of both the German and English language and his extensive field work to the Czech Republic to investigate Schumpeter's family origins and the Harvard Archives to check out the original manuscript sources, and so on, makes this one of the most authoritative and significant treatments ...