"This book introduces readers to the range of theories, approaches and techniques that we will need to understand this country in the twenty-first century.Part one, 'the big picture', looks at how different cultures gather knowledge, introducing readers to science, social science, Māori...

The premise underlying the use of citations data is that higher quality journals generally have a higher number of citations. The impact of citations can be distorted in a number of ways. Journals can, and do, inflate the number of citations through self citation practices, which may be...

Ähnlich wie Niklas Luhmann entwickelt auch Douglass Norths ökonomische Geschichtstheorie eine spezifische Diagnose der Moderne. Das vorliegende Korreferat diskutiert in fünf Schritten, zu welchen Fragen sich das (ordonomische) Rational- Choice-Programm von einer solchen Diagnose der Moderne...