Starting out from the hypothesis that apart from New Institutional Economics, Marxism is the branch of social theory which analyses most important economic developments in the context of social, legal and constitutional history, this essay compares the basic structures of the explanations...

In recent years, research often resorted to quantitative examinations in order to answer the question of whether and to what extent members of the bourgeoisie in Wilhelmine Germany imitated the nobility. As such studies disregard many non-quantifyable aspects of bourgeois behavior, it is here...

In this paper, the causes of both the development and stability of medieval and early modern village communities in Central Europe are analysed. The hypothesis is that these organisations had the function of cartels. As is widely accepted, cartels are inherently unstable, suffering from...