Research within social entrepreneurship traditionally operates in the social domain and lacks direct commercial attributes. The aim of this paper is to highlight that social entrepreneurship can be utilised within commercial context. Article attempts to clarify social entrepreneurship relative...

In den 70er Jahren entwickelte der Ökonom aus Bangladesh das Konzept der Grameen Banks nicht nur theoretisch sondern praktizierte es in einem Dorf nahe Dacca. Mit der Vergabe von Kleinstkrediten an die Ärmsten, vorzugsweise Frauen, die keine andere Bank je für kreditwürdig halten würde,...

The 2008 economic crash led to remarkable shifts of opinion among world leaders. Does this crisis create favourable conditions for the reform and revitalisation of economics itself-from a subject dominated by mathematical techniques to a discipline more oriented to understanding real-world...

What determines the kinds of questions economists ask and the answers they find convincing? More generally, why are the institutions that constitute scholarly economics the way they are? I answer both of these questions by positing that within the modern economics profession, it is plausible...