This volume Untersuchungen zur Methode der Socialwissenschaften und der Politischen oekonomie insbesondere (Menger 1883) was published in 1883 and provided a devastating critique of the Historical school's positions of methodological inductivist essentialism or methodological collectivism. In contrast to the Grundsatze, this work triggered fierce reactions among economists belonging to the so-called German Historical School of Economics such as Roscher or Schmoller.