The article compares market fundamentalism and right-wing populism on the basis of its core patterns of thinking and reasoning. Based on an analysis of important texts in both fields we find many similarities of these two concepts in their "inner images". Thus, we develop a scheme of the similar...

This paper compares the interconnections between dominant economic thought and processes of policy-making in the area of labour market reforms in Germany in the late 1960s and the early 2000s. The transition in labour market policies in this period could be described as a change from an active...

ÖkonomInnen üben über eine Vielzahl von Wirkungskanälen einen großen Einfluss auf gesellschaftliche Prozesse aus. Dazu gehören wirtschafts- und sozialpolitische Beratungsprozesse ebenso wie eine allgemeine mediale Aufmerksamkeit sowie der Einfluss auf eine Vielzahl von Studierenden. Vor...

Die im Dezember 2017 angelobte ÖVP/FPÖ-Koalition formulierte in ihrem Regierungsprogramm weitreichende Reformvorhaben im Bereich der Arbeitsmarkt- und Sozialpolitik. Während die Umsetzung vieler dieser Vorhaben am vorzeitigen Ende der Regierung im Mai 2019 scheiterte, erfuhren andere eine...

Trade liberalization during the neoliberal era since the 1980s has been on the political agenda of many countries. However, in recent years and especially in the course of rising populist movements, protectionist measures seem to be gaining importance again. Nationalist economic policies...

Competition is at the core of economics, being both a central concept of economic reasoning and a main prerequisite for economic action. Yet, the attempt of a clear definition of competition is challenging as the concept of competition has been used in different historical and disciplinary...

This paper introduces a framework to facilitate an interdisciplinary analysis of 'competition'. While such an interdisciplinary analysis can be justified by referencing the various fields of social and economic life in which 'competition' is important, three challenges are found to aggravate...

This paper provides an institutional and empirical analysis of the highly concentrated market of academic publishing, characterized by over-proportionally high profit margins for publishing companies. The availability of latest research findings is of primary importance for researchers,...

In the last decades many scholars have studied urban competition and entrepreneurial urban policies. Coming from the evolving field of competition research, we are interested in how urban competition is constructed and, for this purpose, examine the competition imaginary of Vienna, a city known...

Dieser Beitrag setzt sich mit der Frage des Pluralismus in der ökonomischen Politikberatung. Anhand von drei empirischen Beispielen wird gezeigt, dass sowohl was politisch-ideologische Orientierung als auch das Geschlechterverhältnis betrifft, ökonomische Politikberatung in Deutschland lange...