This book encourages thoughtful technological innovation while remaining conscious of its positive and negative consequences for society, presenting a method to help innovators anticipate consequences, minimize resistance, and enhance acceptance

This book explores the application of field theory (patterns of interaction) to Russian economic history, and how social and political fields mediate the influences of institutions, structures, discourses and ideologies in the creation and dissemination of economic thinking, theory and practice....

This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Combining political, economic, and policy history, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on public finance, while also providing context for the ongoing debate on...

The study presents archival evidence to show how President Kaunda raised political and economic exclusivity in Zambia in the early years of Zambia's independence, and how this retarded capital investment. Despite formal reforms and a new government, this institutional mechanism still dominates...

Von der Steinzeit bis zum frühen Mittelalter: Auch das Wirtschaften hat mal klein angefangen -- Taler, Taler, du musst wandern – das war im Mittelalter manchmal nicht ganz einfach -- Auf dem Weg in das 20. Jahrhundert wandelt sich das Wirtschaften – neue Spielregeln entstehen -- Das große...

Dieses Buch betrachtet die Entwicklung der funktionalen und personellen Einkommensverteilung und deren Verortung im Feld der Wirtschaftswissenschaften im Zeitablauf. Zunächst werden die gängigen theoretischen Erklärungsansätze zur funktionalen und zur personellen Einkommensverteilung...

The state and entrepreneurs are two players that have shaped both economic activity and economic history throughout the world since the Industrial Revolution. This book analyzes the history of economic development in Egypt to show the impact of the relationship between state and entrepreneurs on...

Introduction -- Part I: History, Methodology, and their Current Relevance -- Making the Most of Anomaly in the History of Economic Thought: Smith, Marx-Engels, and Keynes -- Reason and Reasonableness: Lessons from "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" Ninety Years Later -- The Marshallian...

Introduction, State of the Art and Definitions -- Infrastructural Integration in the 19th Century -- Infrastructural Integration in the 20th Century -- Relationship Between Organisational Structures, Political Processes and Agreed Standards -- Political and Socio-economic Theories and...