This paper investigates child poverty in Germany through a multidimensional lens, combining Sen’s Capability Approach and Bourdieu’s Capital Theory to develop a adapted Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for children above 11 and youth aged 17. Drawing on data from the German...

The first capital controversy between John Bates Clark and Eugene von Böhm-Bawerk starts off from and ends up with a fundamental disagreement over Clark's conception of true capital. In light of the philosophy of abstraction, this paper argues that the crux of the disagreement is to be found in...

Most neo-Ricardian studies on the "choice of technique" are based on a comparison of alternative technologies applicable to the same industrial branch. Some authors even recommend restrict analyses of the long-run technological changes to a single industry. In reality, innovations often require...