In the 1960s and 1970s Harrod shifted the emphasis of his research in economic dynamics from the study of business cycles (instability principle) to the investigation of the growth process. As part of that, he restated his concept of the natural growth rate as an optimum welfare rate. The...

The death of welfare economics has been declared several times. One of the reasons cited for these plural obituaries is that Kenneth Arrow's impossibility theorem, as set out in his path-breaking Social Choice and Individual Values in 1951, has shown that the social welfare function - one of the...

Altersarmut, Bildungsunterschiede, eine wachsende Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich - die deutsche Gesellschaft spaltet sich und viele Menschen rufen nach sozialer Gerechtigkeit. Die Autorin untersucht, wie sich das Verständnis von sozialer Gerechtigkeit in Philosophie und Politik gewandelt hat, und...

Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom is an influential book more than seventy years after its publication. This paper examines his arguments and finds that they come up short in many ways and suggests that we have taken "another road to serfdom". Hayek's mind was completely closed to the...

Through this paper I try to join the lively debate around mainstream economics with a view to calling attention to some methodological aspects. It is aimed at outlining an interpretation based on Max Weber's traditional neoclassical methodology that can help us to find the adequate territory of...

The work of Raúl Prebisch is typically summarized by two of his important contributions to development economics: the center-periphery paradigm together with his diagnosis of Latin America's development struggles. Recent investigations have, however, shed light on the nature of Prebisch's early...

Diese Schrift gibt einen Überblick über die Evolution und die Entwicklungen im Bereich des betrieblichen Rechnungswesens und deckt eine zeitliche Spanne von etwa 5.500 Jahren ab. Begonnen wird bei den Wirtschaftstexten der Sumerer, und im Folgenden werden die Epochen Antike, Feudalismus und...

The thinking that has unilaterally dominated economic science for over five decades has recently come under intensive scrutiny and its validity and conceptual and empirical coherence are the subject of controversy. Thus the limitations of the prevailing paradigm for addressing the failures of...

Setting the table -- Economic thought among American aboriginals prior to European contact -- Economic thought in America's protohistorical period -- Economic thought in 18th century America prior to independence -- Economic thought in the new nation, 1776-1885 -- Economic thought in an era of...

Prologue to the English edition -- Previous publications -- Introduction -- The general theory (I) : background -- Keynes and his understanding of early 20th century capitalism -- The general theory : background(II) -- What did Keynes call classical theory? -- Keynes's critique of the classical...

Introduction: the genealogy of the economic -- The invention of economic necessity and the political mob -- Life at the limits: scarcity and the economic -- The right to live and the politics of affect -- The return of the political and the cultural critique of economy -- Money and the economic...

Introduction: marxism without guarantees / Richard McIntyre, Theodore Burczak, and Robert Garnett -- Knowledge, class, and economics -- A conversation with Rick Wolff / Richard McIntyre -- Economics without guarantees -- Strangers in a strange land : a marxian critique of economics / David F....