“A fine collection of essays exploring, and in many cases extending, Jim Buchanan’s many contributions and insights to economic, political, and social theory.” - Bruce Caldwell, Professor of Economics, Duke University, USA "The overwhelming impression the reader gets from this very fine...

In diesem Buch zeigen die Autoren in einem lesenswerten und unterhaltsamen Portrait der Politikberatung in Deutschland, wie lebendig die Wissenschaft ist und mit welcher Begeisterung und Überzeugung führende Ökonomen die Wirtschaftspolitik beraten. Zweiundzwanzig der bekanntesten...

This book integrates three levels of political-economic analysis: first a comparative institutional analysis of the varieties of capitalism in both Europe and Asia, second a macroeconomic analysis of industrial structural change and economic dynamics of the national economies in Europe and Asia,...

This textbook offers a comprehensive guide to the systematic structure of capitalism, while at the same time introducing readers to all three volumes of Marx’s Capital. Based on his extensive expertise on Marx’s critique of political economy, the author reveals the specific structure of...

This books reviews forms of capital 'popular finance' and argues that it is important, as a site at which capital is visible not as a macro-structural reality but as a category itself, which needs to be made and performed in the spaces where is does not already exist. 'Culture' is used to...

Using Karl Polanyi's analysis of the separation of politics and the economy, the book argues that the market economy is not a spontaneous process, but a 'political project' realized through institutional change where labour, land, money, and currently knowledge are commodities. The contributions...

With contributions from leading thinkers such as J. Bhagwati and Robert Solow, this edited collection examines some hotly debated issues in today's world. The significance of globalization and its effects on welfare states is discussed and analyzed. A special chapter is devoted to terrorism, and...

Angesichts der zunehmenden Prekarisierung von Erwerbs- und Familienbiographien stellt sich die bisher kaum untersuchte, aber immer relevantere Frage, wie Individuen mit einer Schmälerung ihrer individuellen finanziellen Ressourcen umgehen und wie sich dies auf ihr Konsumverhalten auswirkt. Zur...

Vertrauensaufbau und -stabilisierung sind ein integraler Bestandteil wirtschaftlichen Handelns geworden. Maria Neumaier untersucht, was im Individuum passiert, bevor es bereit ist Vertrauen zu schenken. Auf der Basis eines interdisziplinären Ansatzes entwirft sie ein Vertrauensmodell, das die...