The paper introduces the notion of different methods of calculating and analysing profitability as signatures of capitalism at different stages of development. Its point of departure is Bryer's thesis of the capitalist mentality, which is subject to theoretical and empirical critique and...

Gordon Tullock denied the scientific status to economics because economists can trade results with the subject of our analysis, e.g., “you can have a low estimate for nothing but a high one will cost you something.” We suppose this to be the fate all disciplines in which the results matter...

This paper analyses one of Turgot's first economic essays, Plan d´un ouvrage sur le commerce, la circulation et l´intérêt de l´argent, la richesse des états (1753-4). Written prior to the appearance of physiocratic influence, it is Turgot's contribution to the movement of writing that...

In this paper I discuss the major approaches to happiness in the economics of happiness: Hedonism and life-satisfaction approaches. It is possible to identify a tension between two important principles in this literature: 1) individuals are the best judges of their own happiness, and 2) the...

Tax systems influence the decisions of private agents. Because of that their evolution and the principles that govern them determine to some extent economic development. Modern tax systems existing in the developed countries follow broadly the principles enunciated by the German economist Fritz...

Purpose: There is a great deal of interest in discovering the secrets of business success according to the Talmud. This interest is satisfied in the present paper by listing and explaining some principles, stories, and cases from the Talmud.Approach: The topic is approached in the manner of...

This paper exposes the aristotelian concept of technique to analize, from it, the difference between economics and chrematistics. It suggests that the singular simbolic nature of money is the key to order one to another, and both in order to politics. It concluyes noting the contrast between...

Tax systems influence the decisions of private agents. Because of that their evolution and the principles that govern them determine to some extent economic development. Modern tax systems existing in the developed countries follow broadly the principles enunciated by the German economist Fritz...

Building on the threefold classification to strategic design, internal scanning and strategic governance (Johanson 2009) in public agencies, this paper elaborates further the strategic governance perspective. The pivotal concept is the social network. First, the classification of types of...

Early in the 18th century, before the birth of political economy as a discipline, two of the earliest novels in the English language were published: Robinson Crusoe (1719) by writer and economic entrepreneur Daniel Defoe, and Gulliver's Travels (1726) by the cleric and political adviser Jonathan...