The history of economics has often been described as the “history of economic thought.” In this essay, I explore an alternative perspective that builds on the French tradition of historical epistemology and treats economics as a social practice. I argue that a practice-based view provides a...

Against the positivistic conception of law, restricted to sources of law, it is argued that doctrine and other materials are also relevant. Legal argumentation is based on legal knowledge, which is constructed not only with legal authorities but also with epistemic authorities, in line with the...

Meist werden Philosophie und Ökonomie als getrennte und unabhängige Gegenstände diskutiert. Doch ihr Verhältnis ist gleichursprünglich und alle ihre jeweiligen Begriffe stehen spiegelbildlich zueinander: Seele und Kapital wie Vermögen und Substanz sind strikte Analogien. Aus diesen...

This paper proposes a preliminary classification of knowledge organization research, divided among epistemology, theory, and methodology plus three spheres of research: design, study, and critique. This work is situated in a metatheoretical framework, drawn from sociological thought. Example...

The work of knowledge organization requires a particular set of tools. For instance we need standards of content description like Anglo-American Cataloging Rules Edition 2, Resource Description and Access (RDA), Cataloging Cultural Objects, and Describing Archives: A Content Standard. When we...

This theses introduces the idea of a symbiotic relationship between evolutionary-institutional and complexity economics. It consists of two major contributions: The first contribution focuses on how the emerging research program of complexity economics can benefit from evolutionary-institutional...

One fundamental assumption often made in the literature on unawareness is that risk preferences are invariant to changes of awareness. We study how exposure to unawareness affects choices under risk. Participants in our experiment choose repeatedly between varying sure outcomes and a lottery in...