In a pathbreaking study on some alleged anticipations of Keynes''s General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Don Patinkin in apparently applying Merton''s sociological approach to the problem of anticipations and multiples in economics, rejects Kalecki and the Stockholm School as...

In drawing on modern finance theory, this note demonstrates the importance of financial instruments for large public sector projects. An explicit link to the theory of Henry George is made, and a public sector financing approach is being demonstrated by using the example of the Oder floodings in...

This note represents results about the extent of teaching the history of economic thought at German language based universities. At the time when cuts need to be made, many universi ties are thought of cutting non-essential courses first, of which the history of economic thought might be...

This entry for a Handbook of Evolutionary Economics offers a short sketch of the applicability of evolutionary economics to law, and in particular to the economic analysis of law. The entry has three main sections, emphasizing in turn issues of transaction costs, the concept of the legal system...

Georg Simmel (1858-1918) veröffentlichte 1899 und 1907 seine ''Philosophie des Geldes''. Die Rezeption in der amerikanischen Literatur aber aber auch in den Beitrag von Dietz betohnt den Ökonomisch-Geldtheoretischen Aspekt dieses Beitrages und sucht ihn in der österreichischen Tradition der...

Manchmal sind Privatisierungen im herkömmlichen Sinne nicht das effektivste Verfahren, um mit einen Erbe an Staatsunternehmungen zu verfahren, die den neuen wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen nicht mehr entsprechen. Dieser Beitrag greift auf einen ausgereiften Gesetzentwurf zurück, um eine...