THE ECONOMIC MOVEMENT IN GERMANY.

The article presents a letter that deals with the movement of economy in Germany. In recent years, economic questions have been discussed in Germany more than at any other time. Until within fifteen years, controversy turned on the powers and influence of the representatives of the people, the position of the states in the Empire, the division of the field of Church and State, questions which, as compared to those concerning social and economic policy, have since gone into the background. Political parties have become economic parties, and the vigorous discussion in public life has exercised a stimulating influence on scientific research. Important differences of principle have appeared in the course of this movement; and controversy has arisen, not only on the merits of particular measures, but as to the scope of economic policy as well as of economic research. In most civilized countries, a reaction has set in, in recent times, against the industrial individualism which had for centuries advanced with powerful strides; but nowhere has the reaction been so strong as in Germany.