Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology (2020) offers a powerful critique of ideological justifications for inequality in capitalist societies. Does this mean we should reject capitalist institutions altogether? This paper defends some aspects of capitalism by explaining the epistemic function...

New research debunks the myth that high taxes and a large welfare state are responsible for the success of the Nordic region.Summary:Left-leaning pop stars, politicians, journalists, political commentators and academics have long praised Scandinavian countries for their high levels of welfare...

The paper brings together a range of ideas on the construction and nature of what may be termed a post neo-liberal social economy. The social democratic era of the early post-war decades and the neo-liberal era of the past four decades are briefly considered. Some general thoughts on the...

Die Corona-Pandemie legt die Stärken und Schwächen der Europäischen Union (EU) bloß und verdeutlicht die Unterschiede in der Leistungs- und Widerstandsfähigkeit der europäischen Volkswirtschaften. Die vorliegende Studie widmet sich daher der Frage, wie die EU gestärkt und mit höherer...

Unternehmen in Profit- und Sozialwirtschaft tragen ökonomische, ökologische und soziale Verantwortung, auch als Corporate Social Responsibility bezeichnet. Um dieser - ggf. auch durch Kooperationen - entsprechen zu können, bedarf es Aushandlungsprozesse, kluger Wirtschafts- und...

The Corona pandemic exposes the strengths and weaknesses of the European Union (EU) as well as the differences in the resilience of the European economies. This study therefore looks at how the EU and its member states can emerge stronger and more competitive from the crisis. The ideas of the...

Several Muslim economists have tried the development of a so-called Islamic economy. Its emergence has been the subject of several criticisms since it is regarded as a resistance and renouncement of Islam against the influence of the West. Assuming that it is hardly a discipline in its own right...

The Corona pandemic exposes the strengths and weaknesses of the European Union (EU) as well as the differences in the resilience of the European economies. This study therefore looks at how the EU and its member states can emerge stronger and more competitive from the crisis. The ideas of the...

Adam Smith hat in seinem Bild des Menschen der Rolle der Imagination einen so großen Stellenwert eingeräumt, dass es berechtigt ist, ihn als Bildanthropologen zu bezeichnen. Der Aspekt des Bildvermögens von Menschen geriet im Laufe des 19. Jahrhunderts in der Geschichte der Wirtschaftstheorie...

En dos de sus libros - El autoritarismo y la improductividad y Por qué crecen los países - José Ignacio García Hamilton (1943-2009) resaltó la influencia que la cultura y las creencias predominantes de la sociedad argentina tuvieron sobre su evolución institucional en el siglo XX y su...

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Why Imagined Economies? -- The Rise and Decline of Doux Commerce: Change of Experience and Change of Perception -- The Emotional Economies of Colonial Capitalism and Its Legacies -- Imagining Money -- Beneath and Beyond the City: The Multiple...

Die Corona-Pandemie legt die Stärken und Schwächen der Europäischen Union (EU) bloß und verdeutlicht die Unterschiede in der Leistungs- und Widerstandsfähigkeit der europäischen Volkswirtschaften. Die vorliegende Studie widmet sich daher der Frage, wie die EU gestärkt und mit höherer...

Unternehmen in Profit- und Sozialwirtschaft tragen ökonomische, ökologische und soziale Verantwortung, auch als Corporate Social Responsibility bezeichnet. Um dieser - ggf. auch durch Kooperationen - entsprechen zu können, bedarf es Aushandlungsprozesse, kluger Wirtschafts- und...

Which countries are most vulnerable to a virus such as COVID-19? Which countries should take the most stringent precautions to prevent the spread of such a virus? The EIB COVID-19 Economic Vulnerability Index covers countries outside the European Union and helps give us an idea of regions that...

There is a strong belief formed in scholarly and policy circles that contemporary capitalism is the source of many economic, social and political problems that plague the world today. This system is blamed for large inequalities between the rich and the poor, unrestrained profit-seeking without...

In his book, the Political Economy of Growth (1957), and in an article he wrote several years earlier (1953), the economist Paul A. Baran noted how in an economic system characterized by a hierarchy of classes and where economic and political power are concentrated in the top class of such a...

"Existe-t-il un modèle de gouvernance québécois? D’après les auteurs de ce livre, oui, et le Québec s’en serait doté à partir de la Révolution tranquille. Ce modèle économique et social unique ne fonctionne pas selon la logique libérale propre à la norme canadienne, mais, au...

"In an open world, the socialist political economy with Chinese characteristics features openness. If China expects to participate and play a leading role in the governance of global economy in economic globalization, it needs to adopt a common discourse to foster its economy to "go global." The...

This book presents studies of ways in which people and organizations deal with the overflow of information, goods, or choices. The contributors explore two main themes. The first is the emergence of overflows: What is defined as overflow? Here the notion of framing as coined by Michel Callon has...

In this article, we draw on established views of CSR dysfunctionalities to show how and why CSR is regularly observed to be both shaped by and supportive of capitalism. We proceed to show that these dysfunctionalities are maintained by both the pro- and anticapitalist approaches to CSR, which...

Statespersons, scholars, and commentators of every political persuasion agree that we are currently witnessing a crisis of world order. It is widely assumed that the co-called ‘Liberal World Order' that the United States constructed in the post-World War II years is collapsing. This Article...