Auf Inflation mit politischen Maßnahmen zur Stimulierung der Nachfrage zu reagieren, wirft Fragen auf, insbesondere wenn einflussreiche zeitgenössische Ökonomen wie Hans Werner Sinn dies unterstützen, indem sie den Konsum als wachstumsschädlich und unnötig für die Wirtschaft bezeichnen....

Dieser Beitrag rezensiert den außerordentlich lesenswerten Sammelband, den Richard Sturn unter dem Titel 'Joseph Schumpeter und der Staat" in der Nomos-Reihe 'Staatsverständnisse" herausgegeben hat. Zugleich wird herausgearbeitet, dass die Schumpeter Rezeption vor einer groflen Herausforderung...

Dieser Beitrag rezensiert den außerordentlich lesenswerten Sammelband, den Richard Sturn unter dem Titel „Joseph Schumpeter und der Staat“ in der Nomos-Reihe „Staatsverständnisse“ herausgegeben hat. Zugleich wird herausgearbeitet, dass die Schumpeter Rezeption vor einer groflen...

The aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual and theoretical framework for the political settlement and dynamics of social contract relations in Tanzania. The political settlement approach is employed within a theoretical framework that has been developed and applied to analyse political...

Interest in socialism is growing throughout the world. But "socialism" too often simply means belief in equality, democracy, and solidarity with working and oppressed people. That vision remains crucial; but we also need to re-develop the theory of a socialist system -not just a middle path, a...

Operating through digital platforms, the digital economy has flourished, becoming the core driver and new motive force of economic growth and demonstrating its advantages in terms of scale, effectiveness, and penetration. Nevertheless, the digital economy, as an important element in the...

The discussion of the growth consequences of socialism has fulminated for a century, sparked off by the Calculation Debate in the 1920s and 30s, and has concerned the performance of the Soviet Union in the 1950s and the mixed development in the 1990s after communism collapsed in Central and...

This paper explores foreign engagements of socialist enterprises in non-socialist countries during the late stage of socialism in Central Europe. It shows that, contrary to popular belief, phenomena such as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) were relevant in the...

Auf Inflation mit politischen Maßnahmen zur Stimulierung der Nachfrage zu reagieren, wirft Fragen auf, insbesondere wenn einflussreiche zeitgenössische Ökonomen wie Hans Werner Sinn dies unterstützen, indem sie den Konsum als wachstumsschädlich und unnötig für die Wirtschaft bezeichnen....

Purpose - Regulating and guiding the sound development of capital under a socialist system is not only a significant theoretical innovation rooted in Chinese practice by the Communist Party of China (CPC) but also a major practical exploration for the smooth progression of the party and the...

This short paper presents the Marxian value theory and its contradiction. As an alternative Marginalism is introduced and it is shown that marginal cost is equal to the monetary expression of marginal labour value. Marginal labour value is proportional to the price

This paper puts forward the ideology and social system of the political and economic main body of the community of human destiny in the future smart economic era, called “Intelligent Socialism”. This theory was first established for China, the only remaining true socialist country in the...

The intellectual competitors to liberalism that appeared in the late nineteenth century often failed to clearly differentiate themselves in popular and academic discourse. Progressivism and socialism both found foothold with promises to transform the economy and society via an activist state;...

In The Road to Serfdom F. A. Hayek set out the danger posed to freedom by attempts to apply the principles of wartime economic and social planning to the problems of peacetime. Hayek argued that the rise of Nazism was not due to any character failure on the part of the German people, but was a...

The unification of the East and West German states in 1990 initiated the integration of two distinct innovation systems. In this process, the poorly functioning socialist system of East Germany adopted the formal institutions and organization of West Germany, a western-style market economy. We...

This paper examines the consequences of a government mimicking the policy of its competitor by studying the introduction of the welfare state in 19th century Germany. The reform conducted by the conservative government targeted blue-collar workers and aimed to reduce the success of the socialist...

Thomas Piketty is the most politically and economically important participant in the ongoing debate about the deleterious effects of income and wealth inequality. The article analyses his arguments carefully because they give Marxists an opportunity to intervene in a mainstream...

This article uses the example of the far-right blog Sezession to examine the particular significance of German history for the authors and the way in which it is used for right-wing political argumentation. With the help of a content analysis approach, 111 articles were examined and it was...

Research on the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in the 1980s shows a high level of congruence between conservative social policy deterring mothers from employment and traditional societal gender norms. In contrast, little is known about whether people in the German Democratic Republic (GDR)...

Right-wing critics of Keynes have often suggested that he was a socialist. His policy proposals were very often described as a slippery slope that would lead society into a totalitarian nightmare. Alternatively, from the left, Keynes was often seen as a reformist that intended to preserve the...

This paper provides a comprehensive discussion of Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky’s 1916 seminal study about the working of cooperatives in a capitalist environment, which, due to historical and linguistic circumstances, has left only a limited trace in the subsequent economic literature in the...

The advancement of conversational AI techniques is driving the rise of chatbot applications in various fields. Pioneering business studies have examined the effects of functional chatbots for specific business tasks, such as customer service. This study extends the business literature by...