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The sciences tell us that fears are physical feelings and mental emotions that play a key role in any society. Not many issues related to fear are explored by economists today. The aim of this paper is to go backwards through the history of economic thought, and examine if and how Adam Smith...
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Paarbeziehungen sind ein zentraler Ort, an dem Ungleichheiten zwischen den Geschlechtern (re-)produziert, kompensiert oder verringert werden – im Sinne eines 'doing couple', 'doing gender' und 'doing (in)equality'. Zudem spiegeln sich in und zwischen Paaren Klassen-, Schicht- und...
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The ecosystem services approach has attracted tremendous attention from policymaking, planning and interdisciplinary sciences over the last decades. Despite its broad acknowledgement worldwide, there are a number of well-known conceptual and methodological limitations that impair its use and...
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Interaktion spielt in der Arbeit an und mit Menschen eine besondere Rolle. Denn Menschen sind besondere „Arbeitsgegenstände“. Zum einen haben sie eigene Interessen und Bedürfnisse; zum zweiten ist es auch von ihrem Handeln abhängig, dass die Dienstleistung gelingt. In diesem Beitrag wird...
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Wissenschaft mit der sozialstrukturellen Zusammensetzung der Professorenschaft im Fach Soziologie. Grundlage ist eine …-structural composition of professors in the field of sociology. This investigation is based upon a full survey of professors at sociological …
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Wissenschaft mit der sozialstrukturellen Zusammensetzung der Professorenschaft im Fach Soziologie. Grundlage ist eine …-structural composition of the professors in the field of sociology. The basis is a full survey of professors at departments of sociology at … sociology professors, which indicates the ongoing dominance of specific pattern of recruitment. In particular the inclusion of …
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In his comprehensive critique of current economic approaches to social capital, Durlauf (2002) recommends a stronger reliance on methods of experimental economics and social psychology. This paper surveys different notions of social capital and submits an alternative conceptual approach based on...
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China's rise drives a growing impact of China on economics. So far, this mainly works via the force of example, but there is also an emerging role of Chinese thinking in economics. This paper raises the question how far Chinese perspectives can affect certain foundational principles in...
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Combining different new approaches to human behavior in neuroeconomics, the cognitive sciences and institutional economics, this paper sketches the fundamentals of a naturalistic theory of economic order. In this endeavour, the argument follows the track laid down by Hayek's comprehensive...
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In this paper, we show that Adam Smith pointed out the existence of the Feldstein-Horioka Paradox or Puzzle and even gave an explanation for it more than 200 years before the publication of Feldstein and Horioka (1980). Smith argues that it is the pursuit of their own security that leads owners...
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