Honors Research: PPE @ UPenn | This thesis seeks to address some of the most central questions to the fields of political philosophy and political economy. How can social order and government develop from anarchy under standard economic assumptions of rationality, where all agents act strictly...

Mit diesem kurzen Text, der in den 1970er-Jahren als erstes Kapitel eines ganzen Bandes zu den Stone Age Economics erschien und erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung vorliegt, bricht Marshall Sahlins mit dem vorherrschenden ökonomischen Paradigma, dass mehr Arbeit auch mehr Wohlstand bringt. Denn...

"Asuncion, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Bukarest, Danzig, Hanoi, Kathmandu, Montevideo, Memphis, New York, Santiago de Chile, Seoul, Tiflis, Tirana, Ulaanbaatar, Zürich – das sind nur einige der Stationen auf der Weltreise von Rainer Zitelmann. Der Historiker und Soziologe hat in 20 Monaten 30...

Der wachsende Zweifel daran, ob auch ein demokratisch-kapitalistisches System dem Klimawandel und den anstehenden Transformationen in der Arbeitswelt standhalten kann, beschert dem ­Sozialismus neue Akzeptanz. Ein Grund mehr, ­Debatten darüber zu führen, wie er im 21. Jahrhundert aussehen...

Die gegenwärtigen Organisationsformen von Arbeit sind vielfach nicht nachhaltig. Arbeit als zugleich wertschaffende und wertzerstörende Tätigkeit droht somit die Grundlagen zukünftigen Arbeitens und Lebens zu untergraben. Mit dem Band wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich auf nachhaltige...

Gesellschaftliche Probleme gab es schon immer, doch aktuell scheinen sie überhandzunehmen: Ob Klimakrise, Bildungsnotstand, demografischer Wandel - die Herausforderungen sind immens. Obwohl technische Innovationen als Lösungen angepriesen werden, greifen sie oft zu kurz. Soziale Innovationen...

We study fairness in economies where humans consume one private good and one public good representing the welfare of other species. We show that a social evaluator cannot be egalitarian with respect to humans while always respecting humans' unanimous preferences. One solution is to respect...

This article analyses the dynamics of trust in institutions, which underpin the legitimacy of social order, on the basis of a study of the developed Arctic region during the period 2006-2018. The authors considered the principal theoretical concepts on which the study of trust, the well-being of...

Two players in the modeled primitive society independently decide whether or not to arm and fight each other for distributive gains. Wealth and technology levels determine the balance of force and whether the society is in Rousseau's Garden of Eden, the Hobbesian war, or an arms race. Wealth and...

This thesis engages with the organizing of participation in participatory art that constitutes the so-called social turn in contemporary visual art. The purpose of the research project is to generate new knowledge about participatory art, in particular, by investigating the organizational...

Was bedeutet soziale Gerechtigkeit? Was ist gerecht, und wie sieht eine gerechte Gesellschaft aus? Um möglichst objektive Antworten zu erhalten, schlug der Harvard-Professor John Rawls 1971 folgendes Gedankenexperiment vor:Stellen wir uns vor, wir kommen mit unseren Mitmenschen zusammen, um die...

Die großen Zukunftsaufgaben der Gegenwart - Klimakrise, digitale Transformation, soziale Gerechtigkeit – sind systematisch ineinander verzahnt und befördern einen tiefgreifenden Wandel. Damit verbundene ökologische, wirtschaftliche und soziale Herausforderungen machen eine umfassende...

Rosa Luxemburg is not an under-consumptionist stressing the tendency to stagnation, it is rather an under-investment perspective: the effective demand crisis results from the disequilibria determined by a vibrant capitalist accumulation, and stems from production rather than circulation. To show...

This paper presents a model of institutional change; links the speed and other characteristics of institutional change to the construct of quot;strategic coordinationquot; from the varieties of capitalism literature; and proposes a linkage to outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in advanced...

Most liberal constitutional theorizing, as exemplified by Buchanan (1975) and Rawls (1971), Operates with a two-level scheme of analysis. The first level entails agreement on the rules through which a polity is constituted; the second level entails self-interested action inside that framework of...

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies, with...

This paper uses the 19th century concern with “the social question” as a vehicle to explore how the theories we use can shape, for better or for worse, our insights into our subjects of interest. Contemporary thinking mostly channels the social question into a focus on inequality in the...

This book deals with the neglected links in economics and society. These neglected links are the inner bonds and lines which keep the society and economy together and are almost interconnected although they are very often treated and discussed separately in different discourses. Contemporary...

This book articulates a unified theory of capitalism as an attempt to provide a comprehensive scientific theory of this social system. A unified theory of capitalism is not the combination of the predominant economic theories - neoclassical, classical, and Keynesian - so as to make them...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1_Introduction To Unified Theory Of Capitalism -- Chapter 2_Scientific Economic Laws Of Capitalism -- Chapter 3_European Colonialism And Capitalist Development -- Chapter 4_Hobsbawm’s Question On Peasantry -- Chapter 5_On Economic Behavior of...

1. Introduction -- 2. Status and characteristics of Chinese family business -- 3. Economic influences of Chinese family business -- 4. Entrepreneurship and family business in China's modernization -- 5. Challenges of family business succession -- 6. Family governance and corporate governance --...

1. Introduction -- 2. Social Inequality and the Plurality of Life-Styles -- 3. Inequality Processes and Vertical Social Stratification -- 4. Social Network Analysis and the Sociology of Economics -- 5. From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy and Vice Versa -- 6. The Order of Social Sciences -- 7. Bounded...