Social science and the image of man.--The age of ideology: persistent and changing.--Changing foundations of scholarly detachment.--Sociology and ideology.--Images of society and problems of concept formation in sociology (with B. Berger)--Culture, social structure, and change.--Concepts and...

Dieser Beitrag illustriert theoretische Argumente zu den Charakteristika vergangener und gegenwaertiger Globalisierungsprozesse am Beispiel des (ehemaligen) MAN-Produktionsstandortes Steyr. Dabei wird gezeigt, wie sich allgemeine Dynamiken verstärkter internationaler Eigentumskonzentration und...

Successful economic development is usually characterized by two salient phenomena: industrialization and demographic transition. Chronologically both events happen so closely to each other that historians and economists alike suspect that they are interrelated. This paper develops a theory for...

This paper provides a uni?ed growth theory, i.e. a model that explains the very long-run economic and demographic development path of industrialized economies, stretching from the pre-industrial era to present-day and beyond. Making strict use of Malthus’ (1798) so-called preventive check...

This paper develops a two-sector model with specific factors of production à la Ricardo-Viner-Jones, in which agriculture is subject to diminishing returns and market-clearing wages, while increasing returns and efficiency wage mechanisms prevail in industry. The asymmetric interaction of the...

In der saechsischen Industrie truebte sich das Geschaeftsklima im Dezember 2000 nach einer Besserung in den beiden vorangegangenen Monaten zwar ein, blieb aber weit im positiven Bereich. Die Klimawerte fuer den Durchschnitt der neuen Laender wurden nicht mehr so deutlich uebertroffen wie in den...

Identity formation is probably one of the most discussed aspects of strategic positioning within anthropology, sociology and political science. In general notions of identity have been based on either an absolutist or primordial understanding of belonging or a constructionalist view in which...

Due to the increasingly integration and thus inter-dependency between the global economy, a given national economy and their societal embedment a triangulation between the three elements is a must if one is to understand the dynamic processes between them. This article focuses especially on the...

Unlike in the past where industrial policy was either focused on creation and growth of state-owned firms or alternatively consisted merely of broadly functional policies without consideration for firm or entrepreneurial specifics, the requirement now is that future industrial policy ought to be...