Rudolf Goldscheid

Rudolf Goldscheid (12 August 1870 – 6 October 1931) was an Austrian writer and sociologist, co-founder of the German Sociological Association, known for his theory of human economy (German: Menschenökonomie) and for developing the topic of fiscal sociology.[1][2] He has been described as "the founder of scientific sociology in Vienna",[3] though he never had a job with a university.[4]

  1. ^ Exner, Gudrun (2004). "Rudolf Goldscheid (1870–1931) and the Economy of Human Beings". Vienna Yearbook of Population Research. 2: 284–288. JSTOR 23025446.
  2. ^ Wasserman, Janek (2024). "Eccentric Circles: Rudolf Goldscheid and the Unrealized Goal of Menschenökonomie during the Era of Socialization". Central European History. 57 (2): 204–222. doi:10.1017/S0008938923000456. ISSN 0008-9389.
  3. ^ Logan, Cheryl A. (2013). Hormones, Heredity, and Race: Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. pp. 113–15. ISBN 978-0813559698.
  4. ^ King, John E. (2019). The Alternative Austrian Economics: A Brief History. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-1788971515. Goldscheid was financially independent, and never held a university position in any discipline.