Frank Decker provides an introduction to the vast work of Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger in this first English edition. Ownership Economics (Eigentumsökonomik) is a condensed version of Heinsohn and Steiger's Ownership, Interest and Money: Unresolved Mysteries in Economic Theory (Eigentum,...

This paper develops a response to some of the criticisms that have been made of G.L.S. Shackle's analysis of human decision-making because of its reliance on a Cartesian account of the mind. It is argued that the basis for a response can be found in the work on theoretical psychology developed...

This paper discusses the impact of Sraffa's thinking on economics. It argues increasing specialization in research is producing an ‘all trees, no forest' fragmentation of economics that creates opportunities for a return to concerns that motivated classical political economy. It associates...

A model for the approximation of enterprise-level crop yields under climate change is proposed which integrates economic and agronomic notions of crop production. The model is potentially useful to policy makers, since it could provide an estimate of the yield volume that can be expected to be...

This article proposes a feasible law for the social sciences asserting that we human beings are not commodities, assets, capital or resources. Mainstream economics and Marxism describe human participation in economic and societal production through a human-commodity framework. Intangible flow...

Economic pluralism proposes that economists and social planners should consider alternative theories to establish a range of policy actions. Neoclassical, Feminist and Marxian theories evaluate well-grounded causes of wage discrimination. Racist attitudes, uncertainties regarding minority...

This paper is a review essay of the latest volume of The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, entitled 'The Market and other Orders.' The paper examines the development of Hayeks' ideas about order, as manifested in the essays collected in this volume. Issues examined include: Hayek's accounts of the...

In this research article, peer-reviewed academic journals in the area of finance have been screened to investigate the recent rise in interest for ldquo;cultural approachesrdquo;. The aim has been to let the definitions emerge from the screening process; thus, building a field-based analysis...

This paper considers how appropriately designed financial institutions can allow economic development to become self-financing, and improve the management of the currency and the economy. The business concept of self-financing, not found in leading economic text books, is described. Related...

There is a neglect of networks within cooperative conflict models, which arises because of the patriarchal households assumed. But households are not the same everywhere, because their structure is dependent upon social context, and they are a sub-system of wider social relations and realities....