The 40th birthday of the Schumpeter Society offers an excellent chance to reflect on Schumpeter intellectual heritage, as well as its shortcomings and the subsequent developments. No doubt that reference to Schumpeter has been a precious shortcut to the rediscovery of the crucial importance of...

This paper examines how applied history can contribute to policymaking when understood as a way of structuring judgement under uncertainty rather than as a source of policy lessons or predictions. It argues that economic history is particularly well suited to facilitating this role because it...

This chapter explores the intersection of religion and economics on the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, first published in 1776. While Smith is often viewed as a secular figure in economics, his work was deeply influenced by the moral philosophy of his time, which was...

This book invites readers on an intellectual journey where the great minds of philosophy intersect with contemporary organizational challenges. With classical and modern philosophical thought as its backbone, Philosophy and Management: Great Minds and Organizational Ideas demonstrates that the...

We define applied economic history as the systematic use of historical reasoning to address economic policy problems. Building on work in applied history, we argue that economic history contributes to policy not by offering ready-made lessons, but by disciplining the narratives and analogies...

We describe Aristotle's mathematical model of weighted voting to explain and implement decision-making in democracies, oligarchies and the mixed states that combine elements of both systems. This model, originally presented in textual form, extends the known history of social choice theory back...

Der in der Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena aufbewahrte Nachlass der Publizistin Edith Eucken-Erdsiek enthält reiches Quellenmaterial zu den weltanschaulichen Debatten der Weimarer Republik, zu Leben und Werk von Walter Eucken und zur Geschichte des Ordoliberalismus zwischen...

This work identifies the intellectual influences that supported Hayek's computational perspective as well as recognition that Hayek received from computational theorists in the decades following the publication of The Sensory Order. Having outlined Hayek's computational approach, I argue that 1)...