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Half a century ago, Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg finished the final edition of his Grundlagen der theoretischen Volkswirtschaftslehre, the Foundations of Theoretical Economics or, in the Spanish and final version, Principios de Teoria Economica. The Foundations or Principios can be considered his much acclaimed culmination and final rendition of his contributions to economic theory. This contribution has stood up very well during the past half century, although it has not yet been fully available to an English-speaking audience.
The essays collected in this issue of the journal of Economic Studies were first presented at a conference organized at Maastricht University on 16 November 1995. The present collection is composed of refereed and revised papers originally written for this conference. The papers can be seen as consisting roughly of three groups, those contributions primarily devoted to the history of economic thought; those contributions primarily devoted to issues of anti-trust; and more general economic policy contributions with respect to post-- Second World War economic policy in Spain and in Germany.
The first group of papers is started off by Peter Senn with a short sketch of Stackelberg's career. Senn carefully searches all the available sources in the literature, which show considerable contradictions, and tries to resolve these contradictions on the basis of documentary evidence where such evidence is available. Senn has been helped by various participants after the meeting itself.
The second paper, also by Peter Senn, documents Heinrich von Stackelberg's presence in the history of economic ideas. This is one of Senn's genuine influence studies, in which he tries to document a specific scholar's presence in the...