Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, Thomas Piketty’s The Economics of Inequality is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one the most pressing concerns in contemporary economics and politics. This work now appears in English for...

Elektrische Energie ist nur unter erheblichen technischen und ökonomischen Aufwand zu speichern. Nichtsdestotrotz muss für eine zuverlässige Versorgung der Gesellschaft mit elektrischer Energie ein ständiges Gleichgewicht von Angebot und Nachfrage gewährleistet werden können. Aus diesem...

Elektrische Energie ist nur unter erheblichem technischen und oekonomischen Aufwand zu speichern. Nichtsdestotrotz muss fuer eine zuverlaessige Versorgung der Gesellschaft mit elektrischer Energie ein staendiges Gleichgewicht von Angebot und Nachfrage gewaehrleistet werden koennen. Aus diesem...

The paper discusses briefly several long-run systems of production vis-à- vis alternative theories of value and distribution stated by Marx, classical- neoricardian, post-Leontief-neoclassical, and post-Keynes-Sra¤a authors during the last hundred and fifty years. All the systems of production...

We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors of today's nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes. Although our strongest results are for...

Into an analytical stock-flow consistent Post-Kaleckian distribution and growth model the following transmission channels of 'financialisaton' are integrated. 1. 'Financialisation' is assumed to affect distribution between firms and rentiers in the short run, and distribution between capital and...

The contribution to the social theory of consumption of the late Pierre Bourdieu has been widely recognized, but not fully absorbed by the economics discipline. To address this lacuna, an agent-based model of Bourdieu's social theory is developed by extending Axelrod's cultural diffusion model....