This essay will examine just some signs of change in economic and social thought in the North-South relations. It does not attempt to offer a comprehensive overview of the creative possibilities for positive change that are now visible on the world stage. The basic premise of this exploration is...

The notion of Gross National Happiness (GNH) presents a radical paradigm shift in development economics and social theory. GNH can be regarded as the Buddhist equivalent to Gross National Product (GNP), which is the conventional indicator for a nation’s economic performance. But GNH can also be...

The paper explains how Suan Nguen Mee Ma Co., Ltd. (Suan Company) emerged from the NGO movement guided by Sulak Sivaraksa in Thailand. Suan Company is one example of the growing number of experiments in 'alternative business'. In addition to 'fair trade' efforts to bring rural producers and...

Zur impliziten Ethik der Zinstheorie

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Der Dreiklang International - Europäisch - Regional steht für aktuelle politische und gesellschaftliche Ebenen der Veränderung, die von der Wissenschaft aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven aufgegriffen werden. Zu nennen sind die Internationalisierung der Wirtschaft, der europäische...

The present thesis consists of seven papers specifying and analysing models of direct-interactions-driven collective economic phenomena. Within theories and models of coordination in large decentralized market economies (and analogously also within theories and models of coordination in natural...

Vorwort des Rektors ; Johannes Burkhardt: Die Entdeckung des Handels. Die kommerzielle Welt in der Wissensordnung der Fr?hen Neuzeit ; Helmut Koopmann: Geld und Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert ; Henning Krau?: Der ?konomische Mensch. Politische Funktionen und literarische Bilder