Economics has begun to analyse its actors in a new light. Behavioural economics analyses real motives, reasons, attitudes and belief structures, individual and shared mental models, emotions, etc. The everyday behaviour of actors is generally incompatible with rational choice behaviour. Economic...

The industrial society has become history, substituted by the service economy, the knowledge economy or the information economy. But industry has only changed its form: the IT processes in particular are fundamentally industry-based, not only because of the hardware required by the informational...

Durch das Konjunkturpaket und den Hochschulpakt fließen in den nächsten Jahren große Investitionsbeträge in die Bildung. Fraglich bleibt allerdings, ob es im Bildungsbereich auf mehr Finanzmittel ankommt. Reformbedarf besteht wohl eher bei den Strukturen des Bildungswesens und der Qualität...

Only a few economists knew about hermeneutical economics. But my request is to confirm hermeneutical economics only for the reason to make it criticable. Without any doubt, hermeneutical economics is worth to be criticized; but it is an incomplete approach. The first part presents Ludwig M....