The term “science” represents a claim to universality, but modern social science is based on lessons from European historical experience. Why, then, does it claim to have universal application? We suggest that Weber’s dictum that social science should be value free led to the concealment...

Corporate governance scholarship is typically portrayed as driven by single factor models, for example, shareholder value maximization, director primacy or team production. These governance models are Copernican; one factor is or should be the center of the corporate governance solar system. In...

The mainstream definition of Islamic Finance is problematic; often shallow and missing the point. The mainstream definitions focus on the idiosyncrasies and not the very essence of Islamic Finance. This paper serves to better define Islamic Finance by incorporating concepts such as desires,...

Italian Abstract: Scopo del presente saggio e` ripercorrere le teorie economiche elaborate dal giovane Guido Menegazzi durante gli anni Trenta, al fine di evidenziare come in questo periodo si formino i fondamenti del pensiero che andranno a costituire i capisaldi della piu` matura elaborazione...

The publication of submissions to the UK RAE2008 offers an opportunity to assess the location and relative standing of business historians and their journals in the UK's academic research community. Several ratings lists of journals are available that use data from submissions to the RAE2008...

Development and transformation in the context of North East India (NE) is a serious issue. Interested people often used to ask why North East India is lagging behind the rest of the country. For some development thinkers this laggardness of this region is an enigma, for some it is a dream, for...

For the development of banking the 1920s are important because in that historical period a set of new practices influenced banks' lending policies that strongly favored credit expansion. Those innovations pertained to the measurement of credit risk and to new sales methods for banks. In...

Dieser Aufsatz reflektiert das Verständnis von Mensch und Natur, welches dem Denken von Malthus zugrunde liegt und kontrastiert es mit dem völlig anderen Verständnis seines Zeitgenossen William Wordsworth. Wir zeigen, dass die ökonomischen Überlegungen beider entscheidend durch diese...

Over the past years a large number of regional growth theories have been developed and a number of models have been built in an effort to describe, explain and eventually predict regional development trends. However, until a few years ago, the large majority of those models assumed the existence...

A classic paper of Borwein/Lewis (1991) studies optimisation problems over L^p_+ with finitely many linear equality constraints, given by scalar products with functions from L^q. One key result shows that if some x in L^p_+ satisfies the constraints and if the constraint functions are...