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Transformation, Agency and the Economy
Producing, buying, selling, inventing, destroying, caring, imagining, failing – with their everyday practices, people bring about what we call ‘the economy’. In order to both understand and transform these practices in the context of mounting socio-ecological challenges, respective knowledge on economic practices becomes crucial. Yet, when it comes to the respective scientific discipline – economics – such knowledge is limited due to a long-standing tradition of favouring abstraction and modelling over assessing real-world economic action. By contrast, this book draws the contours of an economics grounded in real-world phenomena and experiences by outlining the foundations of a Gro...
Capitalism and Christianity
Drawing on debates about the religious nature and origins of contemporary European capitalism, this book argues for a distinction between a Northern/Protestant and a Southern/Catholic spirit of capitalism. The first part of the book explores the history of the relationship between capitalism and Christianity. Going back much further than Weber’s “protestant ethic” arguments, it looks at the early centuries of Christianity from the gospels to Augustine and follows the story through the Middle Ages – with special attention devoted to the role of Monasticism and Franciscanism – to modernity. The second part of the book analyses the origin of the “southern spirit of capitalism: before and after Luther and the Calvinist Reformation. It highlights the key features which demonstrate that the Catholic spirit of capitalism is, in fact, different from the Anglo-Saxon spirit. This book will be of interest to readers in history of economic thought, history of capitalism, economic ethics and religious history.
The Imperial Mode of Living
Our Unsustainable Life: Why We Can't Have Everything We Want With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western mode of production and living. The logic of liberal markets since the 19thCentury, and especially since World War II, has been inscribed into everyday practices that are usually unconsciously reproduced. The authors show that they are a main driver of the ecological crisis and economic and political instability. The Imperial Mode of Living implies that people's everyday practices, including individual and societal orientations, as well as...
Climate Economics
This book is a philosophical critique of the economics of climate change from both an ethical and philosophy of economics perspective. Mitigating climate change is not so much a scientific problem, but rather a political, social and above all an economic problem. A future without greenhouse gas emissions requires a radical transformation towards a sustainable low-carbon economy and society. How this transformation could be achieved raises numerous economic questions. Many of these questions remain untouched, although economists are equipped with a suitable toolkit and expertise. This book argues that economists have a social responsibility to carry out more research on how global warming could be stopped and that, ultimately, economic analysis of climate change must be a political economic approach that treats the economy as part of a wider social system. This approach will be of interest to policy makers, educators, students and researchers in support of more pluralism in economic research and teaching.
Wirtschaft(lich) studieren
Für den deutschsprachigen Raum liegt hier die erste Studie vor, die sich der studentischen Wahrnehmung eines Studiums der Wirtschaftswissenschaften, insb. der Volkswirtschaftslehre, mit Mitteln der qualitativen Sozialforschung nähert. Aus Gruppengesprächen an fünf der wichtigsten VWL-Studienstandorte in Deutschland und Österreich konnten mithilfe der dokumentarischen Methode vier grundlegende Orientierungen rekonstruiert werden, die für den studentischen Umgang mit einem wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Studium als einschlägig bzw. typisch gelten dürfen. Entgegen einem weitestgehend inhaltlich orientierten Diskurs um den Status quo akademischer ökonomischer Bildung (Monismus bzw. Plura...
Power and Influence of Economists
Economists occupy leading positions in many different sectors including central and private banks, multinational corporations, the state and the media, as well as serving as policy consultants on everything from health to the environment and security. Power and Influence of Economists explores the interconnected relationship between power, knowledge and influence which has led economics to be both a source and beneficiary of widespread power and influence. The contributors to this book explore the complex and diverse methods and channels that economists have used to exert and expand their influence from different disciplinary and national perspectives. Four different analytical views on the ...
Grenzen überschreiten, Pluralismus wagen – Perspektiven sozioökonomischer Hochschullehre
Der Band diskutiert das Verhältnis von Pluraler Ökonomik und Sozioökonomie und stellt dabei insbesondere die Lehre in den Vordergrund. Er lotet aus, worin Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede bestehen, reflektiert den (Un-)Sinn disziplinärer Grenzen und fachspezifischer Denkweisen. und widmet sich Konzeptionen pluraler und sozioökonomischer Lehre in theoretischen und praktischen Zugriffen sowie im hochschulischen und im schulischen Kontext.
The Text and Its Context
This Festschrift for Ronald Speirs, Professor of German at the University of Birmingham, contains twenty-four original essays by scholars from Great Britain, Germany, Austria, and Norway. Between them they encompass the entire modern period from the later eighteenth century onwards, and focus on a wide range of German-speaking environments. Several essays throw new light on authors to whom Professor Speirs himself has devoted particular attention (such as Brecht, Thomas Mann, Nietzsche, and Fontane), whilst others discuss writers such as Lenz, Büchner, Böhlau, C. F. Meyer, Keyserling, Jahnn, and Huch. Above all, however, the contributions address the complexities of writing in ideologically diverse contexts, including the Third Reich and the former German Democratic Republic. This interplay between text and context is the cornerstone which links all the essays, as it has consistently informed Ronald Speirs's own work - which combines a scrupulous attention to textual detail with an acute awareness of the socio-political milieux and philosophical influences that shape creative literature.
Hat das Zukunft oder kann das weg?
Was ist heute Fortschritt? Brauchen wir mehr oder weniger Wachstum? Niedrigere Steuern oder bessere Umverteilung? Mehr Freizeit? Rettet uns die Technologie vor der Klimakrise oder ein anderes Verhalten? Die Journalistin Petra Pinzler sortiert die Fäden: Wo sind die Ideen, die uns ein gutes Leben bringen, und wer will uns dagegen Rückschritt als Fortschritt verkaufen? Ihr Buch beantwortet große Fragen mit lebensnahen Antworten und misst die kursierenden Fortschrittskonzepte an den gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen. Zukunftsweisendes Aufräumen in unsicheren Zeiten. »Als Arzt habe ich gelernt: erst Diagnose stellen, dann über Therapie sprechen. Petra Pinzlers politisch versierte Diagnose i...
