As an immediate reaction to the recent financial crisis, it has been criticized that many economists are still acting as economic advisers for Ministries or the bureaucracy, although they have not been able to foresee the crisis . Academic economists still hold central positions in policy...

Even after the financial crisis, economists still exert influence on politics and society in general on several levels and thus can be still interpreted as a discipline of power. Particularly in Germany there is a long tradition of institutionalized economic policy advice, which offers...

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...

In den letzten Jahren hat sich ein deutlicher Trend abgezeichnet: Universitäten sind zunehmend von vielfältigen Wettbewerbsformen durchdrungen, die eine zentrale Rolle in der Organisation des Wissenschaftssystems spielen. Dieser Beitrag beleuchtet die Verwettbewerblichung der Wissensproduktion...

Purpose: The global financial crisis led to increasing distrust in economic research and the economics profession, in the process of which the current state of economics and economic education in particular were heavily criticized. Against this background, the purpose of this paper is to...

This paper discusses the actual relevance and historical origins or ‘competition universalism’. In economics, competition is conceptualized as a nearly ubiquitous element of societies, or, at least, used to study a wide array of social and political relations, including competition between...

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...

The article is a contribution to the evolving field of competition research. More precisely our paper provides a comprehensive typology of the different ways competitization is and has been studied across different disciplines and research programs. The article goes beyond a classical literature...