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German Historicist August Oncken studied
in Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin. In 1872, Oncken became professor of political
economy and statistics at the Imperial Agricultural Institute in Vienna, moving
to Aachen technical school in 1877 and in 1878 to the University of Bern.
Oncken's principal claim to fame is as a historian of economic thought, notably of the 18th C. Enlightenment. His Geschichte became a standard German textbook on the subject, helping popularize a renewal of interest in the Physiocrats (although Hayek would take him to task for minimizing the importance of Cantillon). Oncken was among the first to propose the so-called "Das Adam Smith problem", i.e. reconciling the 'contradictory' ethics of Adam Smith in TMS and the WN.
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