This work seeks to answer the "population question," i.e. the effect of population growth on production per capita. This question has lingered in economic thought for centuries and to this day two general lines of thought can be identified, which might be marked as the "optimist" and the...

In dieser Open-Access-Publikation stellt der Autor die Evolution der Steuergerechtigkeitsideen und -prinzipien in einen historischen Zusammenhang und ordnet diese in größere Strukturen ein, um so ein geschlossenes Bild der Steuergerechtigkeitskonzepte in der Rechts-, Sozial- und...

The Dutch bourgeoisie between the two world wars / Ries Bode -- Class formation at the international level / Kees Van Der Pijl -- Finance capital and the crisis in Britain / Henk Overbeek -- The international corporate elite / Meindert Fennema -- Transnational class agency and European...

Comprising eight case studies from around the world, this volume investigates the social, political and ethical implications of markets through the specific lens of prices. Drawing on the most recent scholarship in economic anthropology, it represents the first systematic attempt to address...

Mit der Formulierung der Allgemeinen Gleichgewichtstheorie liegt ein systematischer Ansatz in der ökonomischen Theoriegeschichte vor, die ökonomische Wissenschaft als eine den Naturwissenschaften analoge, exakte Wissenschaftsdisziplin auszuweisen und von der Moralsphäre abzugrenzen. Dieses...

MINE - Mapping the Interplay between Nature and Economy is a digital archive and visual map showing the intersection between nature and economy. By focusing on the interconnections between fundamental concepts e.g. of time, thermodynamics, evolution, responsibility and justice, a new concept of...

This paper discusses the similarities and differences in the plurality of practices regarding the use of interviews by historians of economics - i.e., either the use of someone else's interviews as sources or the use of interviews conducted by the historian for her or his work.

Experimental economists increasingly apply econometric techniques to interpret their data, as suggests the emergence of "experimetrics" in the 2000s. Yet statistics remains a minor topic in historical and methodological writings on experimental economics (EE). This article aims to address this...

We propose a historical perspective on replication in experimental economics focused on public good games. Our intended contribution is twofold: in terms of method and in terms of object. Methodologically, we blend traditional qualitative history of economics with a less traditional quantitative...

This essay gives an overview of a set of selected articles published between 2016 and 2017 in the major journals that cover the history of economic thought. In surveying the literature, we focus on three major aspects - the scope, the sources, and the methods - with reference to which we discuss...

Ce livre a pour objectif la redécouverte de la théorie de la valeur du philosophe autrichien Christian von Ehrenfels; et l'analyse de la possible utilisation de sa théorie dans les sciences économiques actuelles. Après avoir fait connaissance avec Christian von Ehrenfels, l'accent est mis...

Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit liefert die Frage, ob Amartya Sens Capability Approach eine geeignete Grundlage für die Definition von Armut in der EU bietet. Neben der praktischen Anwendbarkeit auf EU-Ebene sollen auch die philosophische Struktur und die historischen Wurzeln des Konzepts betrachtet...

Schumpeter's book History of Economic Analysis (1954) is not only a famous and seminal contribution to the field of the history of economic thought, it also embodies Schumpeter's unique way of treating economic thought, which sometimes makes the term history of economic analysis appear as being...

Germany's approach to solving the Eurozone crisis is supposedly based on the ideas of Walter Eucken (1891–1950), the founder of ordoliberalism. In this and other contexts, Eucken's work has been described as being in direct opposition to that of John Maynard Keynes. Our paper aims to clarify...

This lecture discusses the work by the Estonian economist Ragnar Nurkse (1907-1959). It focuses on the early Nurkse, who was concerned with exchange rates, capital flows and what today we call the international financial architecture. It asks how many of the conclusions of International Currency...

Thesis abstract / Blurb -- Preface: economic thought and the intellectual legacy of colonialism -- Acknowledgments -- William Petty : biographical and historical background -- Petty and the colonialist roots of development economics -- Petty's economic thought and the fiscal-military state --...

"Michael Polanyi is most famous for his work in chemistry and the philosophy of science, but in the 1930s and 1940s he made an important contribution to economics. Drawing on rich archival materials of Polanyi and his correspondents, Gábor Biró explores their competing worldviews and their...

"The spectacular economic growth experienced by China since 1978 has often been hailed as "the China Miracle". Many economists have tried to understand the forces behind China's phenomenal growth and the explanations can be divided into two broad schools of economic thought - one school of...