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Current research on the long-term influence of ordoliberal and neoliberal ideas is hampered by an overly static and generalised picture of the Freiburg School. To address this gap, the paper analyses all articles published in ORDO, the flagship journal of the Freiburg School, between 1948 and 2014. This makes it possible to distinguish three phases of post-war ordoliberalism, to identify personal continuities and breaks, and to summarise thematic, methodological, and conceptual developments. Since the analysis utilises text mining methods, such as keyword identification and Topic Modeling, and validates the results of distant reading with close reading and external data, the paper also highlights some general methodological insights for using Digital Humanities in the historical sciences.

Die Arbeit untersucht den laufenden Prozess der legislativen Anpassung des EU-Wettbewerbsrechts an die Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung. Durch einen Vergleich zwischen Stakeholder-Beiträgen, Expertenberichten und Reformvorhaben wird das Potenzial eines «Partizipativen Kartellrechts» exemplarisch ausgelotet und die Transmission bestimmter Ideen nachvollzogen. Die Kombination innovativer quantitativer Methoden aus dem Feld der «Digital Humanities» mit detaillierter qualitativer Analyse erlaubt zudem, subtile Formen des Lobbyismus aufzudecken. Gegenstand der Betrachtungen sind die 108 Stakeholder-Beiträge, die im Rahmen des Konsultationsverfahren der Europäischen Kommission eingereicht wurden, der von der Kommission in Auftrag gegebene Expertenbericht, der DMA-Entwurf sowie die 10. GWB-Novelle

Dieser Artikel verwendet das verhaltensökonomische Konzept der Heuristik, um die durch Narrative verzerrte Wahrnehmung von ökonomischen Sachverhalten zu analysieren. Vier Fallbeispiele aus der jüngeren wirtschaftsgeschichtlichen Debatte um Wirtschaftskrisen zeigen auf, dass Narrative nicht nur eine positive gemeinschaftsstiftende Funktion erfüllen, sondern auch im negativen Sinne grenzüberschreitende wirtschaftspolitische Kooperation erschweren können. Wie und an was wir uns erinnern sowie die Narrative, die wir auf Grundlage dieser Erinnerungen konstruieren, sind somit für ein Verständnis aktueller wirtschaftspolitischer Präferenzen unerlässlich. Daher wird eine um wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Fallstudien und digitale Methoden angereicherte Forschung über die Zusammenhänge zwischen Narrativen und ökonomischem Verhalten benötigt.

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For the first time, we analyse the role of future topics in Bundestag speeches between 1949 and 2021 using computational linguistic methods. The results show that the discourse on future issues in the Bundestag rose sharply in parallel with the "Wirtschaftswunder" between the 1960s and 1990s. However, since the global financial crisis of 2008, the Bundestag has lost its future focus. An algorithmic content analysis explains this phenomenon: Recent Bundestag speeches deal more with the short-term challenges of multiple crises and less with long-term frameworks.

AbstractBy tracing mentions of the English radical thinker Thomas Spence (1750–1814), his revolutionary "Plan", and his disciples (the "Spencean Philanthropists") in digitized collections of English-language Irish, Caribbean, Indian, Australian, Canadian, and US-American newspapers in the 1790s–1840s, this article explores the dissemination of the ideas and militancy inspired by Spence ("Spenceanism") across the British Empire and the United States. By applying Digital Humanities methods to investigate British radical history from a transnational perspective, the global reception of Spenceanism is reconstructed by examining and comparing a corpus of 275 newspaper articles through text-mining methods such as keyword analysis, co-occurrences, and sentiment analysis. These methods enable the identification of key themes in references to Spenceanism and advance hypotheses concerning both their geographical and chronological distribution: not only when and where Spence and the Spenceans were alluded to and commented upon, but also how a newspaper's geographical location may have impacted its rhetoric in a specific year and historical context. By combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, this article contributes new insights regarding the global circulation of radical ideas across the nineteenth-century English-reading world.

The ordoliberal school of competition thought is a distinct linguistic community whose conceptual and semantic influence extended far beyond Germany and eventually shaped the European legal order. Linguistic misunderstandings still impacted the negotiations of the founding European Treaties, but in the subsequent application of the new rules, the Freiburg School s ordoliberal ideas gained in popularity. In the early 2000s, this ordoliberal language was replaced by neoliberal concepts borrowed from the Chicago School. The study combines archival materials, oral history interviews, case law and Text Mining methods. In doing so, it contributes to the historiography of EU competition law, the post-war history of ordoliberalism, and methodological debates about Digital Humanities

The ordoliberal school of competition thought is a distinct linguistic community whose conceptual and semantic influence extended far beyond Germany and eventually shaped the European legal order. Linguistic misunderstandings still impacted the negotiations of the founding European Treaties, but in the subsequent application of the new rules, the Freiburg School's ordoliberal ideas gained in popularity. In the early 2000s, this ordoliberal language was replaced by neoliberal concepts borrowed from the Chicago School. The study combines archival materials, oral history interviews, case law and Text Mining methods. In doing so, it contributes to the historiography of EU competition law, the post-war history of ordoliberalism, and methodological debates about Digital Humanities.

The onset of the Eurozone crisis popularized the PIGS acronym, contrasting Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain unfavorably with their Northern European neighbors. In order to investigate the historic formation of this country group heuristic, we apply a Structural Topic Model (STM) to all 2,443 articles published between 1946 and 2009 in the German newspaper Die Zeit that mention Spain. The estimated topics and their evolution over time confirm a strong association of Spain with other Southern European countries as an ongoing characteristic of the German medial discourse for more than sixty years. Moreover, the STM allows us to distinguish and characterize a cultural, a political, and an economic dimension of PIGS countries' perception in this newspaper. We find that the initial PIGS heuristic shaped by socio-cultural attributes that mainly reflected the experiences of German tourists was only later supplemented with economic ascriptions.

Dieser Artikel verwendet das verhaltensökonomische Konzept der Heuristik, um die durch Narrative verzerrte Wahrnehmung von ökonomischen Sachverhalten zu analysieren. Vier Fallbeispiele aus der jüngeren wirtschaftsgeschichtlichen Debatte um Wirtschaftskrisen zeigen auf, dass Narrative nicht nur eine positive gemeinschaftsstiftende Funktion erfüllen, sondern auch im negativen Sinne grenzüberschreitende wirtschaftspolitische Kooperation erschweren können. Wie und an was wir uns erinnern sowie die Narrative, die wir auf Grundlage dieser Erinnerungen konstruieren, sind somit für ein Verständnis aktueller wirtschaftspolitischer Präferenzen unerlässlich. Daher wird eine um wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Fallstudien und digitale Methoden angereicherte Forschung über die Zusammenhänge zwischen Narrativen und ökonomischem Verhalten benötigt.