Download or read book Die ltere Historische Schule wirtschaftstheoretische Beitr ge und wirtschaftspolitische Vorstellungen written by Christian Scheer and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Band enthält die überarbeiteten Referate der 20. Tagung des Dogmenhistorischen Ausschusses, Ulm 1999. Tagungsthema war die (deutsche) Ältere Historische Schule. Gegenstand der einzelnen Beiträge sind vor allem die drei führenden Persönlichkeiten dieser Gruppen deutscher Ökonomen: Wilhelm Roscher (1817-1894), Carl Knies (1821-1898) und Bruno Hildebrand (1812-1878). Streissler und Schmidt befassen sich mit Roscher, dem wohl bedeutendsten deutschen Ökonomen seiner Zeit und der Zentralfigur der deutschsprachigen Nationalökonomie im dritten Viertel des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Trautwein setzt sich mit dem kredittheoretischen Werk Knies' auseinander, Pierenkemper und Schefold untersuchen aus unterschiedlichem Blickwinkel Hildebrand. Chipman erstellt eine umfassende Analyse des Beitrages, den die älteren deutschen Ökonomen zur Nutzentheorie und zu der später mit den Namen von Gossen, Menger und Jevons verbundenen 'marginal revolution' geleistet haben. Die inhaltliche Weite der Älteren (und Jüngeren) Historischen Schule wird heute verkannt. Soweit junge Ökonomen diesen Teil der Geschichte des ökonomischen Denkens im Verlauf ihrer Ausbildung überhaupt kennenlernen, wird er ihnen eher als abschreckendes Beispiel 'falschen' oder fehlenden wirtschaftstheoretischen Denkens vorgestellt. Die überraschenden Neubewertungen, die die Beiträge präsentieren, zeigen, wie völlig unangemessen derartige simplifizierende 'Verdammungen' sind, die jahrzehntelang gedankenlos und ohne Kenntnis der Werke der kritisierten Autoren wiederholt wurden.
Download or read book The Foundations of Economics written by Walter Eucken and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIRST GERMAN edition of this book appeared in 1940. Since then the book has gone through five more editions and has been translated into Spanish and Italian. The present English translation is based on the sixth German edition. The author was Professor of Economics at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Professor Eucken was a student at a time when the Historical School dominated the teaching of econo mics at the German universities. Although, at the beginning of his career, he did some work along the lines of the Historical School, neither the ~ims nor the methods of historical research the field of economics as practised by the representatives in of the Historical School satisfied him; and the fact that the members of this school were unable to explain the causes of economic events such as the German inflation after World War I was an added reason for him to turn to economic theory. He became, among German economists, the foremost opponent of the Historical School, which he criticised in several publica tions. Through his wrItings and his teaching he contributed his share to the revival of interest in economic theory which was noticeable in the 'twenties. And he was one of the few economists left in Germany who helped to keep this interest alive during the 'thirties and during World War II. During this time he published Kapitaltheoretische Untersuchungen (1936), and the present volume, which immediately gave rise to an extensive discussion in German economic journals.
Download or read book Adult Learning and Education written by Kjell Rubenson and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 46 articles from the diverse and still emerging field of adult education.
Download or read book The Dollar and the Policy Mix 1971 written by Robert A. Mundell and published by Princeton, N.J. : International Finance Section, Princeton University. This book was released on 1971 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policies for Prosperity written by James Tobin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these timely essays, Nobel prize�winning economist James Tobin shows how Keynesian economics offers corrective treatment for the economic ailments we have faced under the Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations.Essays in the first part of the book focus on theory and policy in Keynesian economics, particularly on the modern anti-Keynesian movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Tobin's writings on the events, controversies, doctrines, and policies of the Reagan era make up the book's second section, Essays in part three continue to discuss the Reagan revolution, focusing on fiscal policies and presenting some general macroeconomic principles that can be invoked to remedy the situation; those in part four are concerned more specifically with the conduct of monetary policy. A fifth section addresses inflation stagflation, and unemployment, recommending income policies that Tobin believes must become a "permanent tool of macroeconomic policy." The book concludes with several essays on various aspects of political economy, including a timely reminder that economic policies should serve ethical values.James Tobin, who received the Nobel prize in economics in 1981, is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale.
Download or read book Digital Whoness written by Rafael Capurro and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first aim is to provide well-articulated concepts by thinking through elementary phenomena of today’s world, focusing on privacy and the digital, to clarify who we are in the cyberworld — hence a phenomenology of digital whoness. The second aim is to engage critically, hermeneutically with older and current literature on privacy, including in today’s emerging cyberworld. Phenomenological results include concepts of i) self-identity through interplay with the world, ii) personal privacy in contradistinction to the privacy of private property, iii) the cyberworld as an artificial, digital dimension in order to discuss iv) what freedom in the cyberworld can mean, whilst not neglecting v) intercultural aspects and vi) the EU context.
Download or read book Internet Privacy written by Johannes Buchmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough multidisciplinary analysis of various perspectives on internet privacy was published as the first volume of a study, revealing the results of the achatech project "Internet Privacy - A Culture of Privacy and Trust on the Internet." The second publication from this project presents integrated, interdisciplinary options for improving privacy on the Internet utilising a normative, value-oriented approach. The ways in which privacy promotes and preconditions fundamental societal values and how privacy violations endanger the flourishing of said values are exemplified. The conditions which must be fulfilled in order to achieve a culture of privacy and trust on the internet are illuminated. This volume presents options for policy-makers, educators, businesses and technology experts how to facilitate solutions for more privacy on the Internet and identifies further research requirements in this area.
Download or read book Die ltere Historische Schule Wirtschaftstheoretische Beitr ge und wirtschaftspolitische Vorstellungen written by Christian Scheer and published by Duncker & Humblot. This book was released on 2005-07-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Band enthält die überarbeiteten Referate der 20. Tagung des Dogmenhistorischen Ausschusses, Ulm 1999. Tagungsthema war die (deutsche) Ältere Historische Schule. Gegenstand der einzelnen Beiträge sind vor allem die drei führenden Persönlichkeiten dieser Gruppen deutscher Ökonomen: Wilhelm Roscher (1817-1894), Carl Knies (1821-1898) und Bruno Hildebrand (1812-1878). Streissler und Schmidt befassen sich mit Roscher, dem wohl bedeutendsten deutschen Ökonomen seiner Zeit und der Zentralfigur der deutschsprachigen Nationalökonomie im dritten Viertel des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Trautwein setzt sich mit dem kredittheoretischen Werk Knies' auseinander, Pierenkemper und Schefold untersuchen aus unterschiedlichem Blickwinkel Hildebrand. Chipman erstellt eine umfassende Analyse des Beitrages, den die älteren deutschen Ökonomen zur Nutzentheorie und zu der später mit den Namen von Gossen, Menger und Jevons verbundenen marginal revolution" geleistet haben. Die inhaltliche Weite der Älteren (und Jüngeren) Historischen Schule wird heute verkannt. Soweit junge Ökonomen diesen Teil der Geschichte des ökonomischen Denkens im Verlauf ihrer Ausbildung überhaupt kennenlernen, wird er ihnen eher als abschreckendes Beispiel "falschen" oder fehlenden wirtschaftstheoretischen Denkens vorgestellt. Die überraschenden Neubewertungen, die die Beiträge präsentieren, zeigen, wie völlig unangemessen derartige simplifizierende "Verdammungen" sind, die jahrzehntelang gedankenlos und ohne Kenntnis der Werke der kritisierten Autoren wiederholt wurden."
Download or read book European Migration written by Klaus F. Zimmermann and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-03-24 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed countries, especially in Europe, face a number of issue related to migration: social and economic disruptions caused by the declining demand for unskilled labour and resulting unemployment, a shortage of skilled labour in many professions, increasing international competition for highly qualified human capital, radical demographic changes, and the forthcoming expansion of the European Union, which will trigger further immigration into major European countries and create new market opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe. This suggests a need for a deeper knowledge of the causes and consequences of increased labour mobility. This is especially important when it is associated with tension and fears among native populations. This book brings together analyses of migration issues in major European countries, and compares evidence with more countries that have traditionally seen the most immigration. First, it studies migration streams since World War II, and reviews major migration policy regimes. Second, it summarizes the empirical evidence measuring wages, unemployment, and occupational choices. Third, it investigates how migrants affects the labour markets of their host countries, and evaluates econometric studies into the wage and employment consequences of immigration. Surprisingly, there is wide evidence that immigration is largely beneficial for receiving countries. There might be phases of adjustment, but there is no convincing evidence that natives' wages are depressed or unemployment increases as a consequence of migrant inflow. However, there is a growing impression that migration does serve less and less the needs of the labour market. This suggests a stronger focus on economic channels of immigration, for which the book provides a conceptual basis and the required empirical facts and institutional background.
Download or read book Whiteness written by Mike Hill and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of white culture
Download or read book Corporate Social Irresponsibility written by Ralph Tench and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an increasingly heated topic since the 1980s. This title proposes that the concept of Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI) offers a better theoretical platform to avoid the vagueness, ambiguity, arbitrariness and mysticism of CSR.
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Download or read book A Critical Evaluation of the Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis written by I. Schmidt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1989-02-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication of this clinically analytical and trenchantly insightful volume is felicitously timed. By fortuitous coincidence, it comes at a time when the Chicago School enjoys a high-water mark of acceptance in U.S. legal circles, and at a time when the U.S. merger movement of the 1980s is cresting. It provides a welcome warning against the dangers of translating abstract theories, based on highly restrictive (and unrealistic) assumptions, into facile public policy recommendations. As such the Schmidt/Rittaler study serves as a needed antidote to the currently fashionable predilection to confuse ideology with science. In the Chicago lexicon, the only appropriate policy toward business is a policy of untrammeled laissez-faire. Because there are no market imperfec tions (other than government-created or trade-union-generated monopolies), the market can be trusted to regulate economic activity, inexorably meting out appropriate rewards and punishments. In this ideal world, corporate size and power can be safely ignored. After all, corporations become big only only because they are efficient, only because they are productive, only because they have served consumers better than their rivals, and only because no newcomers are good enough to challenge their dominance. Once an industrial giant becomes lethargic and no longer bestows its productive beneficence on society, it will inevitably wither and eventually die. This is the "natural law" that governs economic life. It demands obedience to its rules. It tolerates no interference by the state.
Download or read book The Retreat of the Elephants written by Mark Elvin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-10 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture’s relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history. Spanning the three millennia for which there are written records, The Retreat of the Elephants is the first comprehensive environmental history of China. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape. China scholar and historian Mark Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated elephant habitats; the destruction of most of the forests; the impacts of war on the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through gigantic water-control systems. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century was probably more environmentally degraded than northwestern Europe around this time. Indispensable for its new perspective on long-term Chinese history and its explanation of the roots of China’s present-day environmental crisis, this book opens a door into the Chinese past.
Download or read book New South African Review 6 written by Devan Pillay and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy Despite the transition from apartheid to democracy, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. Its extremes of wealth and poverty undermine intensifying struggles for a better life for all. The wide-ranging essays in this sixth volume of the New South African Review demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy, crippling the quest for social justice, polarising the politics, skewing economic outcomes and bringing devastating environmental consequences in their wake. Contributors survey the extent and consequences of inequality across fields as diverse as education, disability, agrarian reform, nuclear geography and small towns, and tackle some of the most difficult social, political and economic issues. How has the quest for greater equality affected progressive political discourse? How has inequality reproduced itself, despite best intentions in social policy, to the detriment of the poor and the historically disadvantaged? How have shifts in mining and the financialisation of the economy reshaped the contours of inequality? How does inequality reach into the daily social life of South Africans, and shape the way in which they interact? How does the extent and shape of inequality in South Africa compare with that of other major countries of the global South which themselves are notorious for their extremes of wealth and poverty? South African extremes of inequality reflect increasing inequality globally, and The Crisis of Inequality will speak to all those general readers, policy makers, researchers and students who are demanding a more equal world.
Download or read book Murder at Small Koppie written by Greg Marinovich and published by African History and Culture. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning investigation that has been called the most important piece of journalism in post-apartheid South Africa, Murder at Small Koppie delves into the truth behind the massacre that killed thirty-four platinum miners and wounded seventy-eight more in August of 2012 at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa's North West province. News footage of the event caused global outra≥ however, it captured only a dozen or so of the dead. Here, Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Marinovich focuses on the violence that took place at Small Koppie, a collection of boulders where a second massacre took place off-camera and in cold blood. Combining his own meticulous research, eyewitness accounts, and the findings of the Marikana Commission of Inquiry, Marinovich has crafted a vivid account of the tragedy and the events leading up to it. By taking readers into the mines, the shacks where the miners live, and the boardroom, Marinovich puts names, faces, and stories to Marikana's victims and perpetrators. He addresses the big questions that any nation must ask when justice and equality are subverted by conflicts around class, race, money, and power, as well as the subsequent denial and finger-pointing that characterized the response of the mine owner, police, and government. This is a story that is both stirring and accurate.
Download or read book Rooted in Dust written by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the social impact of drought and depression in Kansas, illustrating how both farm and town families dealt with the deprivation by finding odd jobs, working in government programmes, or depending on federal and private assistance.
