"Growth growth growth retells history as a succession of a pivotal crises linked to the economic growth. Beginning with agriculture ten thousand years ago, each crisis led to an impasse until human ingenuity devised a technical 'solution' to fix it. These solutions included the alphabet, paper,...

Es zieht sich eine Spur der Zerstörung von der Herrschaft der Finanzmärkte über die neuen Netzgiganten bis hin zur dynamisierten Meinungsindustrie. Auf der Strecke bleiben dabei Demokratie, Freiheit und soziale Verantwortung. Joseph Vogl rekonstruiert in seiner brillanten Analyse, wie im...

Legendary economist Hyman Minsky identified author William H. Janeway as a 'theorist-practitioner' of financial economics; this book is an expression of that double life. Interweaving his unique professional perspective with political and financial history, Janeway narrates the dynamics of the...

A central feature of modern Asia that trumps differences in economic and political systems is the web of close relationships running between and within business and politics; the connections world. These networks facilitate highly transactional interactions yielding significant reciprocal...

The varieties-of-capitalism (VoC) approach distinguishes liberal market economies (LMEs) such as the USA and coordinated market economies (CMEs) such as Germany based on institutional differences in terms of corporate governance, industrial relations, company relations as well as education and...