Honors Research: PPE @ UPenn | This thesis seeks to address some of the most central questions to the fields of political philosophy and political economy. How can social order and government develop from anarchy under standard economic assumptions of rationality, where all agents act strictly...

1. Introduction -- 2. Legal nature of the irregular money deposit contract -- 3. Essential differences between irregular deposit and loan. 4. The Theory of Capital -- 5. The Theory of the Business Cycle -- 6. Criticism of Monetarist and Keynesian Theories -- 7. Reform to the Banking System -- 8....

"Rudolf Bahro, Wolfgang Harich and Robert Havemann were probably the best-known critics of the DDR's ruling Socialist Unity Party. Yet they saw themselves as Marxists, and their demands extended far beyond a democratisation of real socialism. When environmental issues became more important in...

"Asuncion, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Bukarest, Danzig, Hanoi, Kathmandu, Montevideo, Memphis, New York, Santiago de Chile, Seoul, Tiflis, Tirana, Ulaanbaatar, Zürich – das sind nur einige der Stationen auf der Weltreise von Rainer Zitelmann. Der Historiker und Soziologe hat in 20 Monaten 30...

Chapter 1. Complexity Theory and Broadened Rationality on Man and Society -- Chapter 2. Influential Linearized Theories on Man and Society -- Chapter 3. Bifurcations, Chaos, and Unpredictability -- Chapter 4. Self-Organization, Catastrophes, and Structural Changes -- Chapter 5 Uncertainties with...

"Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the EAST--exams, autocracy, stability, and technology--from ancient times through the present. Beginning with the Sui dynasty's introduction of the civil service exam, known as Keju, in 587 CE--and continuing through the personnel management...

Gesellschaftliche Probleme gab es schon immer, doch aktuell scheinen sie überhandzunehmen: Ob Klimakrise, Bildungsnotstand, demografischer Wandel - die Herausforderungen sind immens. Obwohl technische Innovationen als Lösungen angepriesen werden, greifen sie oft zu kurz. Soziale Innovationen...

Die gegenwärtigen Organisationsformen von Arbeit sind vielfach nicht nachhaltig. Arbeit als zugleich wertschaffende und wertzerstörende Tätigkeit droht somit die Grundlagen zukünftigen Arbeitens und Lebens zu untergraben. Mit dem Band wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich auf nachhaltige...

Der wachsende Zweifel daran, ob auch ein demokratisch-kapitalistisches System dem Klimawandel und den anstehenden Transformationen in der Arbeitswelt standhalten kann, beschert dem ­Sozialismus neue Akzeptanz. Ein Grund mehr, ­Debatten darüber zu führen, wie er im 21. Jahrhundert aussehen...

We study fairness in economies where humans consume one private good and one public good representing the welfare of other species. We show that a social evaluator cannot be egalitarian with respect to humans while always respecting humans' unanimous preferences. One solution is to respect...

This article analyses the dynamics of trust in institutions, which underpin the legitimacy of social order, on the basis of a study of the developed Arctic region during the period 2006-2018. The authors considered the principal theoretical concepts on which the study of trust, the well-being of...

Two players in the modeled primitive society independently decide whether or not to arm and fight each other for distributive gains. Wealth and technology levels determine the balance of force and whether the society is in Rousseau's Garden of Eden, the Hobbesian war, or an arms race. Wealth and...

This thesis engages with the organizing of participation in participatory art that constitutes the so-called social turn in contemporary visual art. The purpose of the research project is to generate new knowledge about participatory art, in particular, by investigating the organizational...

This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to maintain social order. I argue that social order can be conceptualised as a public good game. Past attempts to explain social order typically relied on the assumption of selfish and...

This chapter presents some insights from basic behavioural research on the role of human pro-social motivation to maintain social order. I argue that social order can be conceptualized as a public good game. Past attempts to explain social order typically relied on the assumption of selfish and...

Was bedeutet soziale Gerechtigkeit? Was ist gerecht, und wie sieht eine gerechte Gesellschaft aus? Um möglichst objektive Antworten zu erhalten, schlug der Harvard-Professor John Rawls 1971 folgendes Gedankenexperiment vor:Stellen wir uns vor, wir kommen mit unseren Mitmenschen zusammen, um die...

Die großen Zukunftsaufgaben der Gegenwart - Klimakrise, digitale Transformation, soziale Gerechtigkeit – sind systematisch ineinander verzahnt und befördern einen tiefgreifenden Wandel. Damit verbundene ökologische, wirtschaftliche und soziale Herausforderungen machen eine umfassende...

Rosa Luxemburg is not an under-consumptionist stressing the tendency to stagnation, it is rather an under-investment perspective: the effective demand crisis results from the disequilibria determined by a vibrant capitalist accumulation, and stems from production rather than circulation. To show...

We begin with an economic model of science according to which signals concerning scientific reputation both serve to coordinate the plans of individuals in the scientific domain and ensure that the knowledge that emerges from interactions between scientists and the environment is reliable...

Sustainability is usually constructed in terms of environmental preservation or of replicating a certain output level. To challenge the status-quo, we argue that it is a matter of preserving a certain version of social order, which can only be replicated by a trickle-down pattern of conspicuous...

This paper uses the 19th century concern with “the social question” as a vehicle to explore how the theories we use can shape, for better or for worse, our insights into our subjects of interest. Contemporary thinking mostly channels the social question into a focus on inequality in the...

We begin with an economic model of science according to which signals concerning scientific reputation both serve to coordinate the plans of individuals in the scientific domain and ensure that the knowledge that emerges from interactions between scientists and the environment is reliable...