Recent wave of mass popular dissent reminds us that it is necessary to understand social dynamics also from the perspective of social exclusion. Landauer (1900) inquired how to create alternative community with “the inclusion of the excluded as excluded” (Agamben, 1999). Antisystem movements...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Arbeiten von Jon Elster zum Problem lokaler Gerechtigkeit. Das Thema dieser Arbeiten sind Rationierungsentscheidungen. Es geht um die Allokation und Distribution knapper Zuteilungsgüter, also etwa um die Vergabe von Kindergarten- oder Studienplätzen, die Zuweisung...

This brief essay sketches the ways in which four leading economic thinkers (Knight, Coase, Posner and Sunstein) have dealt with a vexing tension in the relations of economics to law, the state, and the social. The tension arises as microeconomists address (or fail to address) the relations of...

Ever since the dire predictions of The Limits to Growth (Meadows & al. 1972) failed to come true on time, it's been all too easy to ridicule environmentally-based arguments against economic growth as pessimistic and "Malthusian." In contrast, this paper accepts, for the sake of argument, the...

Clausius definition of temperature does not require that temperature is the value we measured with a thermometer. This was to make sure the temperature was a thermodynamic quantity and not just a physical manifestation of that quantity. If energy is easily converted into other forms of energy...

Concealed managerial ignorance (CMI) is a dark secret that protects managerial authority, a terra incognita that evades customary research methods. A longitudinal semi-native ethnography of automatic processing plants and their parent inter-kibbutz cooperatives by a management-educated...

What is the origin of Strategic Management leading towards national Welfare planning, development and optimisation all over the World? This question opens a "Pandora's Box". It is significant that it is a key question to open up the knowledge of a world of ignorance, with some believing that...

Traditional corporate social capital formulations have been based on a firm’s positioning within its network of market place alliances. This paper extends this model by incorporating additional firm status attributes into an integrated model for corporate social capital. An empirical study of...

Background: Methods have been developed to try and understand the process of preference formation as a means of validating the contingent valuation method. Such methods include asking individuals to think out loud, or discussing the contingent valuation (CV) scenario as a group: group...