This paper deals with the concepts of disorder within the theoretical framework of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Eric Voegelin. I will try to give a very brief and un-finished insight into the use of a comparative approach concerning both theories and it is therefore just a first step into two...

This Essay discusses two historical parallels between the current financial crisis and the financial crisis of the late 1920s and 1930s. First, financial innovation was at the core of both crises. In particular, the machinations of Ivar Kreuger illuminate how financial innovation tends to...

We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers. Using detailed operational, financial, and ownership data from the Japanese cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last century, we find a more nuanced picture than the...

Confederate monetary reforms encouraged holders of Treasury notes to exchange these notes for bonds by imposing deadlines on their convertibility. We show that Confederate funding acts aimed at precipitating the conversion of currency into bonds did temporarily suppress currency depreciation....

This paper sketches a plan for developing a conceptual framework capable of reconstructing and analyzing the recorded history of CSR practice in the context of economic history. To this end, the paper combines Axel Leijonhufvud’s conceptual thoughts on the economic conditions during and after...