Wann immer es um Zukunftsentwürfe geht, kommt man an Harald Welzer nicht vorbei: Für das Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute gehört er zu den 100 wichtigsten Vordenkern der Welt, die Presse feiert sein letztes Buch "Selbst denken" als das wichtigste im vergangenen Jahr, seit 2012 leitet er das...

The main purpose of this book is to explain Mexico's substandard economic activity by applying the foundational factors approach primarily to Mexico and, for purposes of comparison, secondarily to the United States. The argument is that, unlike the United States, Mexico has been shaped by an...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a testable theory, the interaction thesis, capable of explaining why do we observe differences in economic stability and growth rates between various countries; or - the same thing - why less efficient countries do not duplicate economic policies of more...

This book studies the sources of inequality in contemporary South Korea and the social and political contention this engenders. Korean society is becoming more polarized. Demands for "economic democratization" and a fairer redistribution of wealth occupy centre-stage of political campaigns,...