THE FIRST GERMAN edition of this book appeared in 1940. Since then the book has gone through five more editions and has been translated into Spanish and Italian. The present English translation is based on the sixth German edition. The author was Professor of Economics at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Professor Eucken was a student at a time when the Historical School dominated the teaching of econo­ mics at the German universities. Although, at the beginning of his career, he did some work along the lines of the Historical School, neither the | The Foundations of Economics by Walter Eucken, Paperback | Indigo Chapters