Purpose – In view of current catchwords like globalisation, internationalisation and flexible markets, it should be remembered that many of the fundamental economic positions which are assigned to those terms were already put forward by promoters of the social question. The questions discussed...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the social question, die soziale Frage , is treated in the periodical literature of English language economics. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines every reference to the question in the most important English language...