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What should future merchants learn that bookkeeping alone cannot teach? Siegmund Feilbogen makes the place of economics in Austrian commercial schools a question of judgment as well as occupational competence. Economics, he argues, connects individual transactions with collective life—but teaching it requires a different order from expounding it as a science. Familiar commodities, industries and institutions should prepare pupils for abstractions rather than merely illustrate definitions learned in advance. Drawing on Herbartian pedagogy, Feilbogen joins this practical method to an ethical ambition: merchants should understand other classes and recognize interests beyond private gain. His use of a student presentation on Austrian trade with China also exposes a tension within that ambition, as education for wider social understanding becomes preparation for national commercial expansion.