Gerhard Scherhorn ist Ordinarius des in Deutschland einzigen Lehrstuhls für Konsumtheorie und Verbraucherpolitik an der Universität Hohenheim. Aus Anlaß seiner Emeritierung im Frühjahr 1998 haben ihm seine Schülerinnen und Schüler diese Schrift gewidmet. -- In den Arbeiten von Gerhard...

Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing concerns about climate change and the...

Games like EverQuest and Dark Age of Camelot occasionally produce natural experiments in social science: situations that, through no intent of the designer, offer controlled variations on a phenomenon of theoretical interest. This paper examines two examples, both of which involve the theory of...