Das Buch befaßt sich mit den Möglichkeiten und Problemen einer Theorie alltagssprachlich koordinierter ökonomischer Handlungen. Im Mittelpunkt steht zum einen die Produktivität verständigungsorientierten Handelns, zum anderen die Wirkung sprachvermittelter Macht. Die entwickelten...

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Systems theory -- pt. 3. Unity of social sciences -- pt. 4. Economics and morality -- pt. 5. Communication/persuasion -- pt. 6. Power theory -- pt. 7. Evolutionary economics -- pt. 8. Institutions/institutional economics -- pt. 9. Spaceship earth (ecological...

The aim of this article is to investigate the impact of globalization on the Danish economy. We focus on four possible influences of globalization and European integration (as one of the expressions of globalization) which are widely discussed in the scientific discourse on this topic and appear...

British institutional economist Shaun Hargreaves Heap once wrote: "... that orthodox welfare economics runs into problems generating public policy prescriptions because it works with a picture of individuals as solely a bunch of well-behaved preferences, which they are motivated in their actions...

Power has been a neglected topic in economics at least since the neoclassical paradigm has dominated the profession. John Kenneth Galbraith is probably the most prominent and successful among his fellow American institutional economists in this particular field of inquiry. Steven Lukes's useful...