"The Evolution of Economic Systems" is dedicated to Ota Sik on the occasion of his 70th birthday. It honours Ota Sik's economics, his political life and his social and humane concerns. His commitment to truth, his challenging of established polit-economic structures and idealogical borderlines...

Vorwort des Rektors ; Johannes Burkhardt: Die Entdeckung des Handels. Die kommerzielle Welt in der Wissensordnung der Fr?hen Neuzeit ; Helmut Koopmann: Geld und Literatur im 18. Jahrhundert ; Henning Krau?: Der ?konomische Mensch. Politische Funktionen und literarische Bilder