This essay examines the relationship between Austrian economics and economic history. It notes their different origins as scholarly fields, and divergent trajectories over the course of the twentieth century, before discussing recent examples of cross-fertilization and pointing to areas of...

When the Great Depression struck the United States, Oliver M.W. Sprague was America’s foremost expert on financial crises. His History of Crises under the National Banking System is a frequently cited classic. Had he diagnosed a banking panic and called for an aggressive response by the...

Belgium is one of the few EU-15 countries with no system of involving employee representatives in the strategic management of a company. The post-second World War social pact created extensive institutions for information, consultation and collective bargaining at the company, sector and country...

In den Debatten um Digitalisierung, Künstliche Intelligenz und das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Maschine nehmen Vertreter:innen des Transhumanismus immer wieder radikale Positionierungen ein und sind somit wichtige und nicht selten provokante Akteure innerhalb des technikfuturistischen...

Belgium is one of the few EU-15 countries with no system of involving employee representatives in the strategic management of a company. The post-second World War social pact created extensive institutions for information, consultation and collective bargaining at the company, sector and country...

Chapter 1. Why Gunnar Myrdal? -- Chapter 2. Childhood, Study Years, Roots, and the Early Years with Alva -- Chapter 3. The Value Premises of Social Scientists Must Be Clarified -- Chapter 4. The Macroeconomic Revolution in Theory and Practice -- Chapter 5. The Emergence of the Welfare State...

With central banks becoming monetary authorities, research departments have become a core element of a modern central bank. Crucial elements of a central bank research department are contributing to monetary policymaking and sustaining a dialogue with the academic community. The importance of...

The emergence of the concept from the physiocrats to the Weimar Republic -- The (neo)Libéral recapture of the concept -- The microeconomic Constitution of the European Union fundamental economic freedoms and competition law -- The macroeconomic Constitution of the European Union. The advent of...

When the Great Depression struck the United States, O.M.W. Sprague was America's foremost expert on financial crises. His History of Crises under the National Banking System is a frequently cited classic. Had he diagnosed a banking panic and called for an aggressive response by the Federal...

With central banks becoming monetary authorities, research departments have become a core element of a modern central bank. Crucial elements of a central bank research department are contributing to monetary policymaking and sustaining a dialogue with the academic community. The importance of...

Economic Process and World Regions -- Exploitation and Inequality -- Karl Marx and Inequalities of Social Class -- Angela Davis on a New Kind of Universality -- Social Inequality in Africa -- Wealth and Inequality.

Introduction. At the beginning ... -- The Economy and the Civilization of Monasticism -- Francesco's Economy -- Some MiddleAge issues -- Luther, the Reformation and the Modern Spirit of Capitalism -- Jansenism and anthropological pessimism in the birth of Political Economy -- The Economic Spirit...

"Rudolf Bahro, Wolfgang Harich and Robert Havemann were probably the best-known critics of the DDR's ruling Socialist Unity Party. Yet they saw themselves as Marxists, and their demands extended far beyond a democratisation of real socialism. When environmental issues became more important in...

When the Great Depression struck the United States, Oliver M.W. Sprague was America's foremost expert on financial crises. His History of Crises under the National Banking System is a frequently cited classic. Had he diagnosed a banking panic and called for an aggressive response by the Federal...

The ordoliberal school of competition thought is a distinct linguistic community whose conceptual and semantic influence extended far beyond Germany and eventually shaped the European legal order. Linguistic misunderstandings still impacted the negotiations of the founding European Treaties, but...

"What is the nature of the 'laws' that Marx and Engels sought to formulate for the development of capitalism? How to understand and judge Engels's attempt to formulate a general philosophy and worldview? These are the questions highlighted in this magnificent work that situates Marx and Engels's...

Spätestens mit der Wende 1989 wurde die politische, moralische und vor allem ökonomische Unterlegenheit des "real existierenden Sozialismus" unübersehbar. Nach seinem Zusammenbruch verloren auch Karl Marx und seine Thesen massiv an Zustimmung und Interesse. Aber er verschwand nie endgültig...

"La correspondance de Victor Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715-1789), économiste et physiocrate français, et Marc Charles Frédéric de Sacconay (1714-1788), politicien vaudois et bernois, membre du conseil souverain de l'État de Berne, invite à développer une nouvelle interprétation de...

The figure of the "professional" looms large in our contemporary society as an ideal for economic activity and socio-political inclusion, and even as a model for individual self-development. But how and when did this figure arise? And what has led professional activity to become such an...

Diskussionen über »den« Kapitalismus, die ihm innewohnende Kraft sowie die aus ihm resultierenden Probleme sind in unserer »Gesellschaft des Spektakels« allgegenwärtig. Und obgleich sich ein nicht unerheblicher Teil der politischen Eliten, der Medienmacher, Kirchenoberhäupter oder...

This Working Paper is a chapter forthcoming in Piki Ish-Shalom, Markus Kornprobst, and Vincent Pouliot, eds, Perspectives on Cognitive Evolution and World Ordering: Opening New Vistas, discussing Emanuel Adler's opus magnum on World Ordering. It uses Adler's analysis of power to unpack his...

We study the interplay between scientific progress and culture through text analysis on a corpus of about eight million books, with the use of techniques and algorithms from machine learning. We focus on a specific scientific breakthrough, the theory of evolution through natural selection by...

Pierre Daunou, a contemporary of Borda and Condorcet during the era of the French Revolution and active debates on alternative voting rules, proposed a rule that chooses the strong Condorcet winner if there is one, otherwise eliminates Condorcet losers and uses plurality voting on the remaining...