Pesch biography

Rupert J. Ederer is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the State University College at Buffalo, in New York. He is currently translating Pesch’s 3,800-page Lehrbuch into English.

Heinrich Pesch is probably the greatest economist who has ever lived.

The ironic fact that he is little known is a commentary on our times and the state of the economic science rather than on the man.

Pesch biography wikipedia

This German Jesuit scholar wrote the longest, most exhaustive economics text that any­one has written, and it deserves to be regarded as a kind of Summa Economica. The five-volume Lehrbuch der Nationalökonomie examines all serious economic thinking up until Pesch’s time, culling out what is deficient, retaining what is worthwhile, and filling in what its author perceived to be lack­ing.

The result is a design for an economic system that is opposed to both classically liberal capitalism and state socialism, based instead on Aristotelian-Thomistic philosoph