The authors of this text decided to prepare a short article, with the aim to induce further discussion and to orient ongoing and future research eff orts in Central and Eastern Europe but also worldwide. Th e article uses the method of a multi-country case study as the basis for proposing...

Argues preliminarily that quantitative-mathematical social science, including economics, is not possible because it applies a method useful in other areas to a field to which it cannot be applied and because the truth claim of science so conceived is self-referential to begin with. The argument...

The essay narrates and analyzes Eugen Dühring’s remotion, i.e. the taking away of his status as Privatdozent, and thereby of his right to teach at a university, by the Prussian Minister of Culture in 1877. After sketching out the background of the University of Berlin, the institution of...