Reconsiders tax reform and economic emancipation of women with respect to public policy formation in The Netherlands. In particular, investigates the attempts of organised interest groups of the Dutch women's liberation movement during the 1980s to influence the public policy process on tax...

Outlines the problem of emancipation (not only of married women) as a problem of economic order, and the historical setting of family and government. Discusses economics of the family, economic order and public finance. Concludes, with special reference to The Netherlands, that incremental...

Emphasizes some aspects of ultra-marginality in Attilio da Empoli’s main contributions and argues that those concepts could have provided a prelude to a wider reconsideration of dynamic theory in political economy.

Reviews Milton and Rose D. Friedman’s, Two Lucky People: Memoirs, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1998, $35 (£24.95), ISBN 0-226-26414-9. Focuses on how the memoirs illuminate the main contributions Friedman has made to political economy and the economics literature.

Compares research and teaching of today's business economics with its predecessor disciplines before 1890. Describes attempts to organize commercial high schools from 1890 – business economics has its roots in these institutions. Discusses the reasons for the separation of business economics,...

Looks at the university at the end of the nineteenth century using the concept of a “social institution”, and applying four approaches. A functional analysis provides insights into the kinds of knowledge a university produces. Examination of changes in these functions in the nineteenth...

Considers the question of how the works of Roscher were regarded in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Although Roscher's works were neither received nor accepted in the GDR, nevertheless, people there did occupy themselves with his ideas. Deals with three questions: what was the result of...

Describes how the opinions about Wilhelm Roscher and his work developed during the century following his death in the USA. Possible reasons for the changes are explored. Special attention is given to the more favourable reception of Roscher in the USA as opposed to the UK. A central point is...

The well-known modes of raising and mobilizing venture capital in Islam known as mudarabah and musharakah (m&m) in Islamic economics are critically examined. In the form as m&m presently exist, they are pointed out to be pre-Islamic financing instruments that came into usage in the Islamic...