In his comprehensive critique of current economic approaches to social capital, Durlauf (2002) recommends a stronger reliance on methods of experimental economics and social psychology. This paper surveys different notions of social capital and submits an alternative conceptual approach based on...

Friedrich Hayek was a fervent advocate of the methodological specificity of the social sciences. However, given his contact with Karl Popper, several historians and philosophers have characterised his final position as Popperian, that is, a position that would have accepted the unity of the...

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Ein Vergleich von Freiburger und Österreichischer Schule -- 3. Schumpeter - Unternehmertheorie und Konjunkturablauf sowie die Frage nach Kapitalismus, Sozialismus und Demokratie -- 4. Milton Friedman - Freiheit und das Wachstum der...