In 1896 there were 2858 several models of job centres in Austria. The most of them (885) were situated in Bohemia. New important job centre model has rested in special hostels. From 1886 till 1895 these hostels were established in seven Austrian Lands (in Bohemia for the first time in 1895)....

The article reminds of the world of futures contracts closed between subjects in the Austrian-Hungarian economic space in the period of ca. 1986-1914; an approach to the pricing of option contracts more than 100 years ago is elucidated. The form of a phenomenon of that time that will be called...

Kontrakcia svetovej ekonomiky bude mať výrazne negatívny vplyv na všetky oblasti života spoločnosti. Sú hospodárske krízy predikovateľné? Ex post štúdie nasvedčujú, že skôr nie. Je možné odhadnúť riziko a pravdepodobnosť vzniku krízy, avšak nie čas ich skutočnej...

The paper is concerned with the famous study "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" (1904/1905) by Max Weber. It analyzes both main content and context of this work. It is shown that the main idea of the "Protestant Ethic" is not originally one of Weber, but it was taken over from...