Vergleich marktsoziologischer Theorien über die Koordination von Produzenten -- Diskussion zentraler Theorien der Verbandsforschung -- Geschichte der deutschen Biomärkte von 1946-2012 -- Analyse von Koordinationsleistungen von Wirtschaftsverbänden auf Märkten

This book pursues a nonlinear approach in considering both chaotic dynamical models and agent-based simulation models of economics, as well as their dynamical behaviors. Three key concepts arising in this context are “nonlinearity,” “bounded rationality” and “heterogeneity,” which...

1. The Broad and Narrow Definition of E-Commerce -- 2. Evaluative Framework for Digital Competitiveness -- 3. Website-Centric Shoping Experience -- 4. Socially Responsible Online Marketing- 5. Algorithms – the New Leaders of the Advertising Market -- 6. The Credibility of Online...

Chapter 1: Second-price auctions -- Chapter 2: First-price auctions -- Chapter 3: First-price auctions, Extensions -- Chapter 4: All-pay auctions and auctions with asymmetrically informed bidders -- Chapter 5: Third-price auctions, kth-price auctions, and lotteries -- Chapter 6: The Revenue...

Basic decision and preference theory -- Household theory and theory of the firm -- Games and industrial organization -- Bargaining theory and Pareto optimality -- Bayesian games and mechanism design -- Perfect competition and competition policy -- Contracts and principal-agent theories.

1. Introduction -- 2. Basics of Economic Theory of Contract -- 3. Economics of Damage Remedies I: Unilateral Reliance, One-Sided Information Asymmetry -- 4. Economics of Damage Remedies II: Bilateral Reliance, One-Sided Information Asymmetry -- 5. Economics of Damage Remedies III: Incentives...

Introduction -- Part I: Guggenheim Prize Lecture -- The Myth of Money as a Veil -- Part II: Financial History -- British Investment Trusts 1868 to 1928: Portfolio Diversification and the Beginnings of Institutional Investment -- Early Reflections on the Democratization of Organized Markets and...

Chapter 1: Introduction: Mr Smith Goes to the Movies -- Chapter 2: Scarcity, Conflicts, and Dystopia -- Chapter 3: Evil is the Root of all Money -- Chapter 4: Brokers, Bankers and Boiler Rooms -- Chapter 5: Evil, Inc -- Chapter 6: Disruptors -- Chapter 7: The Path of Workers -- Chapter 8: Women...

Manifesto for a Relational Economics -- Theoretical Framework and Managerial Implications -- Why we could need a Relational Economics and why Standard Economics and its (orthodox) Derivations do not Help.

This volume of essays examines the ways in which magical practices are found in different aspects of contemporary capitalist societies. From contract law to science, by way of finance, business, marketing, advertising, cultural production, and the political economy in general, each chapter...