Um den Konflikt zwischen EU-Befürwortern und -Kritikern zu beschreiben, wird häufig das wirtschaftspolitische Gegensatzpaar "ökonomischer Nationalismus" versus "globalen Freihandel" bemüht. Der vorliegende Beitrag nimmt das britische EU-Referendum zum Anlass, sich kritisch mit dieser...

In this paper, I conduct an international comparison of the financial health of households using data on household wealth and indebtedness for the Group of Seven (G7) countries and show that, even though household borrowings in Japan were the highest among the G7 countries, at least until 2000,...

There are three prominent criticisms directed against those engaging with human rights practice: First, the claim that human rights norms effectively erase the local in favor of an abstract universal; second, that human rights enterprises fail to appreciate its Western colonial continuities; and...

Indigenous peoples have three features in common: their historical heritage, their current culture and their extreme poverty. This paper presents a hypothesis about the development of a cultural factor: indigenous people prefer to work on a small scale. This cultural factor developed during the...