Die real existierende Marktwirtschaft unterliegt einem ökonomischen Wachstumszwang, der Umweltpolitik konterkariert. Eine bessere Wirtschaftsordnung, die in erster Linie leistungslose Einkommen verhindern muss, kann ihn überwinden und Ökonomie, Ökologie sowie soziale Gerechtigkeit in...

"In Rethinking Marxist Theories of Transition, Onur Acaroglu traces the concept of transition across the tracts of Classical and Western Marxism. Rarely directly invoked, transition between different societies appears as an imminent social reality, and a useful conceptual tool for critical...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: socialist imaginations -- PART I The nineteenth-century socialist future -- 1 Contested Christianities: communism and religion in July Monarchy France -- 2 Religious dreams of...

The autumn of humanity -- Part I. Automation: The case for technological unemployment -- Why you should hate your job -- Giving techno-pessimism its due -- Part II. Utopia: In search of utopia -- The cyborg utopia -- The virtual utopia -- The unending quest.

"Economics and science fiction rarely have much to do with each other. As a discipline, economics is far removed from creative writing. Science fiction arguably tells us little about the reality of day-to-day capitalism. Economic Science Fictions challenges and changes that. By treating our...

Dass unsere Welt sich gegenwärtig rasant verändert, weiß inzwischen jeder. Doch wie reagieren wir darauf? Die einen feiern die digitale Zukunft mit erschreckender Naivität und erwarten die Veränderungen wie das Wetter. Die Politik scheint den großen Umbruch nicht ernst zu nehmen. Sie...

Linken-Politiker Gregor Gysi beschreibt, welchen Einfluss Marx auf sein eigenes Denken und seine Politik ausgeübt hat. Darüber hinaus versucht er, Antworten auf aktuelle Fragestellungen mithilfe des marxschen Denkens zu geben. (2)

Der Brexit ist nur das spektakuläre Synonym für Desintegrationsprozesse in der EU. Lässt man das Schrille der Kampagne beiseite, ergibt sich der Blick auf eine politische Kultur und Mentalität, die die nationalen Institutionen wie Parlament und Gerichte gegenüber den supranationalen...

Este texto es una revisión general sobre el turismo en Páztcuaro. Se trata de un acercamiento que recupera varios aspectos de esta ciudad con relación al turismo. Aborda realidades actuales a modo de contexto. Recupera memorias –la indígena y la colonial-. Rememora la utopía del tata...

The paper aims to provide analysis of the most general problems of the music industry in the digital age. It poses a question about the possibility of innovation and conceptual development in contemporary popular music, overflowed with retromania. A growing popularity of such form as a...

In September 2009, the editors of this special issue organized at Lausanne University a Workshop on the History of Russian Political Economy and Statistics at the turn of the 20th century. When preparing a call for paper for this journal, the editors realized that papers presented at the...

In this paper we deal with the concept of the learning economy and its suitability to describe the modern globalizing economy. We contend that in contrast to the many fleeting catchwords and phrases found in economics and public policy, the notion of the learning economy represents a superior...

Along his history, Man has always been mesmerized by the ideal of creating an earthly paradise out of his habitat, so he implemented the vector of progress by means of the particular Myth that was inherent to each epoch. Man’s fascination with his exponential evolution in the world appeared...

This article discusses how the globally-established political concept of sustainable development has become institutionalized in both decision-making and people’s everyday lives in Finland over the last twenty years by focusing on “the logic of appropriateness” and how the notion of...