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The University Before Humboldt and After -- Macroculture, Education and Democracy: Lessons from Ancient Greece -- The University according to Humboldt and the Alternatives -- University Studies at Hardenberg's and Humboldt's Time and the Professionalization of University Studies Today -- The Lexicographical Utility Function of Fertility Decisions and Humboldt's Political Principles of the State -- The University: Idea and Practice -- What remains of Humboldt at times of the Bologna Reform?.

This book was prompted by the current, lingering financial crisis, which has its basis in the disorderly financial practices of the United States. These practices have resulted in an accumulated debt which now requires the United States to run financial policies at artificially low interest rates. In principle, these low interest rates should flood the markets with ready money. Since the spread for banks is very thin, however, and they must carefully discriminate between available risks and finance only those propositions with no risk, credit is not abundantly available. With staggering foreign debt and a myriad of other perils looming, this great nation is at peril for sure. In the tradition of the Heilbronn Symposium, the authors look at historical cases as a means of understanding the current situation and informing possible solutions to a problem that continues to affect the global economy. The volume analyzes cases such as Prussia, Greece, Italy, Estonia, and the European Union. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of economic history as well as policy makers who may benefit from an historical understanding of the economic challenges their countries currently face

This book was prompted by the current, lingering financial crisis, which has its basis in the disorderly financial practices of the United States. These practices have resulted in an accumulated debt which now requires the United States to run financial policies at artificially low interest rates. In principle, these low interest rates should flood the markets with ready money. Since the spread for banks is very thin, however, and they must carefully discriminate between available risks and finance only those propositions with no risk, credit is not abundantly available. With staggering foreign debt and a myriad of other perils looming, this great nation is at peril for sure. In the tradition of the Heilbronn Symposium, the authors look at historical cases as a means of understanding the current situation and informing possible solutions to a problem that continues to affect the global economy. The volume analyzes cases such as Prussia, Greece, Italy, Estonia, and the European Union. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of economic history as well as policy makers who may benefit from an historical understanding of the economic challenges their countries currently face.

This reader in the history of economic thought challenges the assumption that today's prevailing economic theories are always the most appropriate ones. As Leland Yeager has pointed out, unlike the scientists of the natural sciences, economists provide their ideas largely to politicians and political appointees who have rather different incentives that might prevent them from choosing the best economic theory. In this book, the life and work of each of the founders of economics is examined by the best available expert on that founding figure. These contributors present rather novel and certain

1.Introduction Jürgen G. Backhaus -- 2.Sold SoldiersJürgen G. Backhaus -- 3.The Brandenburg TriangleGerhard Scheuerer -- 4.Some Short Thoughts on "The Economics of Slavery"Thomas Straubhaar -- 5.Emancipation of the peasantry in Lower AustriaGünther Chaloupek -- 6.Liberation of the Serfs - The End of Forced Labour?Hans A. Frambach -- 7.More Than Just a Production Factor: The View of Labour in the Works of the Norwegian Economist Torkel Aschehoug (1822-1909) Mathilde Fasting and Sylvi Endresen -- 8.Forced Labor under the Gulag Regime (1918-1990)Nicholas W. Balabkins

Social sciences and economics have undergone enormous progress. While certain topics have been fully researched, others have remained largely under-researched or ignored. It is this discrepancy which prompted the research paradigm of 'Crossing Bridges'. For this volume, ten authors have joined forces to address the problem of under-researched topics, focusing in particular on gaps in interdisciplinary research between economics and other social sciences.

Hayek's theory of cultural evolution has always generated controversy. Interest in Hayek's theory, and others' analysis and criticism of it, has been rising of late. This volume urges a reconsideration of Hayeks' theory of evolution and aims to explore the relevance of Hayek's theory for its own sake and for evolutionary economics more generally

This thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular and authoritative reference work introduces the reader to the major concepts and leading contributors in the field of law and economics. The Companion features accessible, informative and provocative entries on all the significant issues, and breaks new ground by bringing together widely dispersed yet theoretically congruent ideas

Theorie der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung -- The Theory of Economic Development -- The Institutional Analysis of Entrepreneurship: Historist Aspects of Schumpeter's Development Theory -- The Influence of Schumpeter's German Writings on the Mainstream Economic Literature in English -- Schumpeter and Schools of Economic Thought -- On a Virtually Forgotten Essay: Joseph A. Schumpeter's "The Sociology of Imperialisms" -- Joseph A. Schumpeter's "Soziologie des Geldes" -- Adaptation Without Attribution? The Genesis of Schumpeter's Innovator -- The Missing Chapter in Schumpeter's -- The Lost Chapter of Schumpeter's & 'E conomic Development' -- The Second Cleavage of the Austrian School: Schumpeter's German Writings on Economic Systems and Economic Policy in Comparison with Mises/Hayek -- Steeped in Two Mind-Sets: Schumpeter in the Context of the Two Canons of Economics -- The Role of Technical Change and Diffusion in the Schumpeterian Lines -- Edward Bellamy and Joseph Schumpeter in the Year 2000 -- Schumpeter's Gap and the Economic Thought in Hellenistic Times -- Schumpeter and the Crisis of the Tax State.

Abstract:The intellectual roots of law and economics, institutional economics, and the possible science of organization economics are here explored for a better understanding of what Posner is pushing for. The purpose is, of course, to gain better acceptance of his proposal. As it turns out, organization economics comes close to what has come to be called 'the science of State', i.e. treating law, economics, sociology, and political science as approaches to one and the same subject always to be taken together.

Mass privatization is one form of changing the property rights regime of formerly publicly‐owned means of production in the former peoples' republics of Central and Eastern Europe. From an economic point of view, the central question at this transition is whether the change in property rights regimes significantly and benevolently affects the governing structure of the assets in question. This short essay attempts to provide a framework which is theoretical enough to guide meaningful questions, and open and naïve enough not to preclude relevant insight. The contribution of this article consists in a theoretically driven questionnaire which, based on the current state of the property rights theory of the firm, the relevant aspects of law and economics as well as financial economics, tries to elicit scholarly information about issues of institutional detail. Ultimately, the aim is to show how the different approaches to mass privatization can be evaluated from the point of view of creating viable governing structures.