"Roman Frugality offers the first-ever systematic analysis of the variants of individual and collective self-restraint that shaped ancient Rome throughout its history and had significant repercussions in post-classical times. In particular, it tries to do the complexity of a phenomenon justice...

This book uses the building blocks of modern capital market theory, including behavioural finance, as the point of departure for an analysis of hidden ethical content in the contemporary research into capital markets. It illustrates the significant degree of alienation between the financial and...

Zwischen den Gedankengebäuden der neoklassischen Wirtschaftstheorie und des christlichen Glaubens gibt es fundamentale Unterschiede. So steht der homo oecomicus für ein vernünftiges, unabhängiges Wesen in einer Welt, die von Knappheit bestimmt ist, und versucht seine Lage durch Transaktionen...