This essay reviews new histories of the role of game theory and rational decision-making in shaping the social sciences, economics among them, in the post war period. The recent books The World the Game Theorists Made by Paul Erickson and How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind by Paul Erickson, Judy...

Historians of the social sciences and historians of economics have come to agree that, in the United States, the 1940s transformation of economics from political economy to economic science was associated with economists' engagements with other disciplines - e.g. mathematics, statistics,...

Introduction: Foreign aid and development politics in India -- Part I. Learning development, 1947-1955: Debating development and discovering India -- Inventing development aid -- Part II. The heyday of the economic cold war, 1955-1966: The geopolitics of economic expertise -- The aid project and...

Container liner shipping, shipping network, network design, network structure, ship deployment. - This thesis studies network design in container liner shipping by concentrating on four research questions: - How were operational patterns deployed in route design? - How was container shipping...

"In Asia the 1950s were dominated by political decolonization and the emergence of the Cold War System, and newly independent countries were able to utilize the transformed balance of power for their own economic development through economic and strategic aid programmes. This book examines the...

Dieser Kurzbeitrag erläutert die politische Funktion wirtschaftlicher Zusammenarbeit in Krisenzeiten. Das Kernargument lautet: Wirtschaftliche Kooperation ist ein hohes Gut. Sie schafft wechselseitige Abhängigkeiten - und stiftet Gemeinsamkeiten. Das diszipliniert im Konflikt. Den Primat der...

In dem Vorläufer dieses Buches (vgl. W. Stock: "Die Euro-Vision", ID-B 24/14) stand die Analyse der akuten Finanz- und Eurokrise im Mittelpunkt, verbunden mit Lösungsvorschlägen. Hier nun wird über die aktuelle Krisensituation hinaus gedacht. Die Autoren wollen Denkanstöße jenseits des...

Introduction: the struggle over Cold War rationality -- Enlightenment reason, Cold War rationality, and the rule of rules -- The bounded rationality of Cold War operations research -- Saving the planet from nuclear weapons and the human mind -- "The situation" in the Cold War behavioral sciences...