Die ökonomische Theorie hat mit Moral wenig oder gar nichts zu tun. In den gängigen Lehrbüchern der Mikroökonomie findet sich in den Stichwortverzeichnissen kein Eintrag zu Moral oder Ethik. Die Studierenden lernen über die Wirtschaft nachzudenken, aber sie lernen dabei nicht, systematisch...

Die Statistik war in ihren Anfängen "Staatszustandswissenschaft", Fürsten erfassten darin in der Kammer ihr jeweiliges Territorium. Durch die Bevölkerungswissenschaft wandelte sie sich schrittweise zu einer formalmathematischen Theorie. Parallel dazu setzte sich die Geldökonomie immer mehr...

Eine Betrachtung der moralphilosophisch begründeten Zins- und Wucherkritik früherer Jahrhunderte (bspw. von Aristoteles, Thomas von Aquin oder Martin Luther) aus heutiger Sicht bringt interessante Erkenntnisse zu Tage. So wird deutlich, dass die drei zentralen Kritikpunkte...

Globalization disrupted the seemingly solid construction emerged in the aftermath of WW II, called the international trade system. For over fifty years, the system grew constantly thanks to the increasing number of countries that joint it as well as to its ubiquitously-accepted rules. For better...

Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat (1689-1755) A törvények szelleméről című híres művében néhány fejezetet szentelt a pénz szerepének. E tanulmány rekonstruálni igyekszik Montesquieu nézetrendszerét a pénzről, az árakról, a pénzkínálat és az árak...

From 1759 to 1762, François Quesnay had systematically appealed to an obscure physiocrat, Charles Richard de Butré, when he had to make a numerical estimate or to do a nonelementary computation. In the present article, we use two important unpublished writings by Butré to discuss and assess...

Bu kısa çalışma, Fatih Ermiş’in A History of Ottoman Economic Thought: Developments Before the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2013) isimli kitabının METU’den (Kuzey Kıbrıs Kampüsü) Deniz T. Kılınçoğlu tarafından yapılan bir değerlendirmesidir. Osmanlı iktisadi düşüncesi...

In this study, the historical roots of individuality will be examined. According to the view of economic individuality, pursuit of self-interest is the fundamental motivation for all of human beings. When we look into the eighteenth century, the main argument was whether the rise of the...

Antonio Serra wrote in 1613 an outstanding analysis, on the economy of the Reign of Naples, which is still very little known out of Italy; where he is largely recognized as the founder of the "Southern question". This article proposes a larger view of Serra’s pioneering achievements, by...

The aim of this article is to describe the rise and fall of the workhouse system in connection with the developments that took place in economic thought, in the transition from Mercantilism to pre-classical and classical tradition. By examining the economic arguments emerging from the debate...