Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 166
Cover Image
Civilizing capitalism: “good” and “bad” greed from the enlightenment to Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929)
Reinert, Erik S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
"As we look over the country today we see two classes of people. The excessively rich and the abject poor, and between them is a gulf ever deepening, ever widening, and the ranks of the poor are continually being recruited from a third class, the well-to-do, which class is rapidly disappearing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260377
Cover Image
Partisanship at the Origins of Modern Capitalist Institutions
Carney, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Analyses that gauge the relationship of partisanship to economic outcomes nearly always focus on the level of partisanship, and changes to it, at a time concurrent to the outcomes. However, partisanship at the time an institution was established may correspond more strongly to modern economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786923
Cover Image
The anti-materialist project of "The Bourgeois Era"
McCloskey, Deirdre Nansen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
capitalism. One is already published (The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce 2006), and this is volume 2. Volume 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528732
Cover Image
Stability in long-term growth : evidence for a single deterministic trend in Germany (1870-1989)
Belliveau, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This working paper presents analysis about long-term trend in economic growth by examining per-capita GDP in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109056
Cover Image
Economic Backwardness in Security Perspective
Carney, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
focused comparison of Japan and Germany before WWII since they had similar political and legal institutions and were both … ‘backward’, but differed with regard to the security threats they faced. Germany confronted more menacing threats from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786993
Cover Image
Gerechtigkeit und Verteilungswirkungen der Gesundheitsreform 2007
Honekamp, Ivonne; Rehmann, Adelheid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To do this Rawls’ and Nozick’s perceptions of justice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595624
Cover Image
Contested Capitalism: Financial Politics and Implications for China
Richard, Carney - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
capitalism far more than Anglo-American capitalism, and that it is likely to remain this way for the foreseeable future. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835604
Cover Image
Capitalism and Economic Growth: A Game-Theoretic Perspective
Leong, Chee Kian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Why has capitalism prevailed as an institution in promoting economic growth despite its apparent unfairness? In this … paper, we argue that within a neoclassical framework, capitalism is fairer compared to collectivism due to the absence of a … capitalism at the aggregate level. Developing countries operating below the steady state may be better off cooperating as they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836115
Cover Image
The scientist and the church
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836969
Cover Image
Karl Polanyi and the New Economic Sociology: Notes on the Concept of (Dis)embeddedness
Machado, Cardoso; Miguel, Nuno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Within the context of the New Economic Sociology, Karl Polanyi is almost universally considered the “father” of the concept of embeddedness. However, this concept has been subject to selective appropriation by this discipline and its relationship to the remaining theoretical edifice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258003