Article about the role of determinism in the development of social processes. Author from the standpoint of the materialist dialectic analyzes the dynamics and patterns of social processes in Russia. Particular attention is paid to the criticism of religious and ideological concepts of...

An article about the dialectical laws of the genesis of social organization and social systems. The author suggests using a new classification of social relations for the methodological study of the evolution of social systems. The work is based on the methodology of general systems theory and...

The thesis is devoted to studying the role of systemic contradictions in social development, the consideration of objective reasons and the conditions of their occurrence, the relationship of systemic contradictions with the processes of formation of social interests, as well as the construction...

Article about system essence of social contradictions between a society and the power inevitably arising at level of municipal management. On the basis of V. Pareto heritage and the theory of self-organising of I. Prigozhin the author analyzes deep problems of formation of a civil society in Russia.

Article on the use of the paradigm of self-organization theory as a basis for the application of scientific methodology in the humanitarian and economic disciplines. The author substantiates the link between the laws of dialectics, thermodynamics, biology and patterns of socio-economic development.

Contemporary social teaching suffers from a grave deficiency: it is lacking rules of methodology and procedure suited to social reality that are, in particular, able to reconcile increasing creativity (implying irreversibility) with rationality, which are indispensable for the scientific...

This paper reconsiders the economic explanation of EU regional policy from an evolution- ary perspective. It contrasts the neoclassical equilibrium notions of market and government failure with the prevalent evolutionary neo-Schumpeterian and Austrian-Hayekian percep- tions. Based on this...

The objective of the PICK-ME (Policy Incentives for Creation of Knowledge - Methods and Evidence) research project is to provide theoretical and empirical perspectives on innovation which give a greater role to the demand-side aspect of innovation. The main question is how can policy make...

Dieser Beitrag stellt die ökonomische Argumentationswissenschaft vor, die Ludwig von Mises praktiziert hat. Rekonstruiert werden seine Auseinandersetzung mit dem Sozialismus, seine konzeptionelle Neuausrichtung des Liberalismus und sein Beitrag zur Moraltheorie.

Dieser Beitrag skizziert eine Problemgeschichte des Liberalismus und bestimmt dann den Stellenwert, den Ludwig von Mises als Theoretiker des Liberalismus beanspruchen kann: im Hinblick auf die Vergangenheit, aber auch im Hinblick auf die Zukunft des liberalen Programms.