Besides their ideas and social networks, émigré intellectuals bring with themselves practices for engagement with intellectual work. This article focuses on one such practice: the intellectual Kreis [circle]. It focuses on the Geistkreis, an interwar Viennese interdisciplinary intellectual...

Seit dem Stinnes-Legien-Abkommen (1918) wurden die Tarifautonomie von Arbeitgeberverbänden und Gewerkschaften in Deutschland und ihre Legitimität immer wieder politisch diskutiert oder sogar infrage gestellt. Die Zweckmäßigkeit der Tarifautonomie ist also einer fortwährenden...

Besides their ideas and social networks, émigré intellectuals bring with themselves practices for engagement with intellectual work. This article focuses on one such practice: the intellectual Kreis [circle]. It focuses on the Geistkreis, an interwar Viennese interdisciplinary intellectual...

The name of Margaret Garritsen de Vries may not be the first that pops into people’s mind when thinking about the International Monetary Fund. It is through her work, as long-standing official Fund Historian, that those interested in the Fund history will travel through. An operational...

Seit dem Stinnes-Legien-Abkommen (1918) wurden die Tarifautonomie von Arbeitgeberverbänden und Gewerkschaften in Deutschland und ihre Legitimität immer wieder politisch diskutiert oder sogar infrage gestellt. Die Zweckmäßigkeit der Tarifautonomie ist also einer fortwährenden...

Die Kodifizierung der deutschen Rechnungslegung reicht bis in das 18. Jahrhundert zurück. 1945 war es bereits zweigliedrig und unterschied zwischen Vorschriften für Aktiengesellschaften und Vorschriften für andere gewerbliche Unternehmen. Bis 1959 änderte sich wenig an der Rechnungslegung....

Die Rechnungslegung in Europa unterliegt einer gewissen Harmonisierung aufgrund von Richtlinien der Europäischen Union (ehemals Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft, Europäische Gemeinschaft). Richtlinien stellen kein unmittelbar geltendes Recht dar, sondern richten sich an die...

The article argues that international tax law is not a recent law born in the 1920s, it has always existed. From “Miksum” to MLI, from jus gentium to jus inter gentes, historical research shows that international tax law is a historical construction marked by permanence and mutation with...

The presence of a westward-moving frontier of settlement shaped early U.S. history. In 1893, the historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered individualism. We investigate the Frontier Thesis and identify its long-run implications for culture and...

This paper examines the historical record of the financial crises that have often accompanied surges of globalization in the past. The issue of contagion, the spread of financial turbulence from the crisis center to its trading partners, is confronted with historical and statistical evidence on...

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...

The history of the twentieth century can be summarized excessively briefly in five propositions: First, that the history of the twentieth century was overwhelmingly economic history. Second, that the twentieth century saw the material wealth of humankind explode beyond all previous imagining....

Turkey’s current collective labour legislation places heavy restrictions on trade union, strike, and collective bargaining rights. Regarding which, conventional wisdom cites the country’s ongoing neoliberal transformation since the early 1980s. This article explains the post-1980...

"Mitteldeutschland" als Raumbegriff stellt heute eine länderübergreifende Region im südlichen Ostdeutschland dar. Vor etwa 100 Jahren wurde der damals lageorientierte Planungsraum "Mitteldeutscher Industriebezirk" so bestimmt; er zählte u.a. mit anderen Verwaltungs- und Entwicklungsregionen...

Paula Thiede war die erste Frau, die die Leitung einer Gewerkschaft übernahm. Möglich wurde dies durch die Handlungsmacht der gut organisierten Hilfsarbeiterinnen im Druckgewerbe. Gemeinsam mit solidarischen Kollegen entwickelten sie Strategien, um die Anliegen von Gleichberechtigung und...

This article offers a historical analysis of the contributions of U.S. interwar agricultural economics to the economics of information. Concerned with improving the circulation of information on agricultural markets, agricultural economists analyzed the relationship between agents’ information...

In migration studies, immigrant health is a concern before, during, and after migration. This study uses a large late 19th and early 20th century data set of over 20 US prisons to assess migrant net nutrition. Native-born individuals were taller and had the lowest BMIs. International immigrants...

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...

This volume offers a bold restatement of the importance of social history for understanding modern revolutions. The essays collected in Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down provide global case studies examining: - changes in labour relations as a causal factor in revolutions; - challenges to...

"The second volume of the history of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) takes up the story of how the Bank has become an indispensable part of the international financial architecture. It tracks the rollercoaster ride during this period, including the Bank's crucial...

Wealthy philanthropic individuals operating within private law have been largely absent from the historical justice narrative of states in transition and, consequently, from normative discussion regarding the justification of their actions under the auspices of the market. This Article seeks to...

In the face of deepening economic precarity, Americans have been turning to one another for informal support. What is the value of this collectivist safety net? Through a combination of anthropology and economics, this study introduces a way to measure collectivist practices. Applying this...