Alfred Schütz has paid considerable attention to the position of scientist in the world and particularly to that of social scientist. His analyses make extensive use of phenomenological concepts and contain detailed descriptions of scientific cognitive style in its relation to the everyday...

This article investigates the expansion of the scope of economics in the 1960s. We show that the public policy problems raised by the issue of poverty reinforced the expansion, as economists became progressively involved in the social issues of the day. Until the early 1960s, poverty was a...

I had the good fortune to grow up in a wonderful area of Jerusalem, surrounded by a diverse range of people: Rabbi Meizel, the communist Sala Marcel, my widowed Aunt Hannah, and the intellectual Yaacovson. As far as I'm concerned, the opinion of such people is just as authoritative for making...

Intelligente Planungssysteme und smarte Roboter: In Zukunft werden Autonome Systeme, die auf den Prinzipien der Künstlichen Intelligenz basieren, Einzug auch in die Arbeitswelt halten. Dies wirft nicht nur erneut Fragen nach den Konsequenzen für Jobs und Qualifikationen auf - ungeklärt sind...