This paper discusses sociological analyses of the formation and role of expectations in the economy. Recognition of the social constitution of expectations advances the understanding of economic action under conditions of uncertainty and helps to explain core features of modern capitalist...

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- 1. Einleitung -- 2.1 Wissensbestände in der (deutschen) Debatte -- 2.2 Konzept der Studie -- Einleitung -- 3.1 Fallauswahl und Datenerhebung -- 3.2 Erhebungsinstrumente -- 3.3 Datenanalyse -- 3.4 Forschungssample -- Einleitung -- 4.1 Der Fall Hubel –...

This paper discusses sociological analyses of the formation and role of expectations in the economy. Recognition of the social constitution of expectations advances the understanding of economic action under conditions of uncertainty and helps to explain core features of modern capitalist...

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...

Immer wieder liest man, dass Hersteller ihre Produkte bewusst so konstruieren, dass sie vorzeitig kaputtgehen. Die Leidtragenden: die Kunden. Viele Hersteller aber wollen den Verschleiß hinauszögern. Wie gehen sie vor, um Obsoleszenz zu planen? Der Band präsentiert erstmals die Sicht und die...

Wie kann eine Green Economy in Deutschland gestaltet werden? Wie kann die sozialökologische Transformation trotz aller Pfadabhängigkeiten und Hindernisse gelingen? Und welche Faktoren sind hierfür auf den unterschiedlichen Ebenen und Feldern wie Mobilität, Ressourcenschonung oder...

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 Bettering Humanomics: A New and Old Approach to Economic Science, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey offers a critique of contemporary economics and a proposal for a better humanomics. McCloskey argues for an economic science that accepts the models and mathematics, the statistics and experiments of...

"This book explores fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how it is constituted, how it changes and how it might be steered. Conceptualising Demand: A Distinctive Approach to Consumption and Practice explores five core propositions: that demand is derived from social practices,...

Cover -- I. Die Neoklassik vor dem Aus? Zur Notwendigkeit einer sozialontologischen (Re)Formulierung ökonomischer Handlungen. -- 1. Orthodoxe Wirtschaftswissenschaft: Die Neoklassik -- Das neoklassische Theoriegebäude in seinen Grundannahmen -- Die Neoklassik und ökonomische Handlungen: Der...

"The term 'critical finance studies' remains largely unfocused and undefined. Against this backdrop, the key rationales of The Routledge Handbook to Critical Finance Studies are to provide a coherent notion of this emergent field and to demonstrate its analytical usefulness across a wide range...

"The dominant economic explanations of the twentieth century are not comprehensive enough to describe the complexity of economy and society, and their reliance on the biosphere. Intangible Flow Theory in Economics: Human Participation in Economic and Societal Production outlines a new theory...

Wealth is positive-sum -- Good is not enough -- There is no great mind -- Progress is not inevitable -- Economics and/or morality -- Equality of what? -- Markets are not perfect -- Conclusion: The world and I.

"This is a book about the American Dream: how to understand this central principle of American public philosophy, the ways in which it is threatened by a number of winner-take-all economic trends, and how to make it a reality for workers and their families in the 21st Century. Integrating...

Capitalism in Permanent Crisis 1920s-1930s -- Political Crisis and The Crisis of Modernity: Eastern Europe (1953-1968) -- The Crisis of Keynesianism, The Transformation of Liberal Oligarchies and The Critique of Politics -- The Crisis of Critique, The Eclipse of Subversive Reason and The...

Throughout the long postwar period, crisis was a conjectural phenomenon and the exception in a normalcy of growth and social progress. Many key concepts of the social sciences - indeed, our understanding of democracy, embedded markets, enlightened electorates, benevolent political elites, and...

This paper studies the research interests, paradigmatic orientation and political orientation of about 700 full professors of economics at universities located in German-speaking countries. In doing so, we captured biographical and institutional information on these professorships by collecting...

What are the grand dynamics that drive the history of economies? The laws of supply & demand, most economists would argue. For the history of European banking, this book offers an alternative explanation: Rather than market forces, the coincidence and coalitions of charismatic ideas and powerful...

"Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe. Starting with the Southern and Northern Netherlands as important early hubs for marketing knowledge, it analyzes knowledge economies in the dynamics of a globalizing...

The Rhetoric of Market Efficiency : How Data Analysis Became Legitimate -- Collaborations and Market Efficiency : The Network of Financial Economics -- Winners and Losers in Financial Economics, or Fama versus Black : How Markets Became Efficient and Equilibrium was Defeated -- How Financial...

Tech-Aktien steigen immer! Immobilienpreise fallen nie! Stimmt das wirklich? Ob wahr oder nicht, solche Narrative, oder einfacher gesagt Geschichten, beeinflussen das Verhalten von Menschen und somit auch die Wirtschaft massiv. Wie entstehen Narrative? Wie gehen sie viral, wie gewinnen sie an...

"That law both affects and is affected by the surrounding culture is a proposition so obvious as to hardly need mentioning. Yet the precise direction and nature of this relationship is among the most vexing problems in comparative (or any) law. Is law a reflection of the surrounding culture or...