Das Thema "Geld" stellt bis heute trotz - oder vielleicht gerade wegen - seiner Allgegenwart in der Gesellschaft einen blinden Fleck der Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften dar. Der Band soll helfen, dieses Manko zu beheben. Jenseits der üblichen technischen Betrachtung des Geldes als...

This is an essay in postclassical theory and modelling, and more specifically an attempt to think about organisation and management. Our focus is on cognition and communication, not on objectivity or causality. We look for operations based on distinctions and their contexts, not for identities,...

There is no self-evident sociology of management. The cognitive focus of sociology seems to be at odds with the volitive aspects of management. The paper proposes to consider a possible approach, which consists in viewing management as the evolutionary mechanism of a social system, thus...

Following the economic theory of addiction the paper takes addiction not to be the exception to the rule but rather the paradigm of life. Unsteady equilibrium, adjacent complementarity, and hyperbolic discounting identified by economic theory as the conditions for addiction to develop are at the...

The article presents considerations on a recursive calculus of the economy. Economic decisions gain their self-reference from the fact that they contradict each other with regard to their decreasing marginal utility, opportunity costs, the postponement of satisfaction of needs and their own...

The paper compares Claude E. Shannon's mathematical theory of communication to George Spencer-Brown's calculus of indications. Whereas the former proposes a probabilistic understanding of information and a redundant world of a code shared among sources and destinations of messages, the latter...

A revolution such as the Russian October Revolution may be shown to exhibit as its condition of success such an identity the social system of society agrees upon for some time and then has to watch its substitution and deconstruction by supplements and evolutionary drift. I shall not attempt...

The article proposes to translate Georg Simmel's paradox of money being the indifference that makes the difference into an analysis of money being, as a medium of communication, the difference that makes, inside society, the difference of economy. Introducing a description of temporalized social...