Ökonomie und Kirche das ist kein Widerspruch. Klöster häuften früher durch geschicktes Handeln ein gewaltiges Vermögen an. Heute finden religiöse Werte durch den Corporate-Governance-Kodex Eingang in die Geschäftswelt und christliche Parteien prägen die Wirtschaftspolitik. Auf das Spannungsfeld zwischen Staat, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft gehen Päpste durch Sozialenzykliken seit dem 19. Jahrhundert ein: Leo XIII. forderte 1891 Lohngerechtigkeit sowie Arbeitnehmerrechte und gab damit der Soz...

This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist conception of state and economy - aform of 'science' of government dedicated to reforming society while promoting economic development, and often associated mainly with Prussia - had significant impact far beyond Germany and Austria. In fact, its influence spread into Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Portug...

Thomas R. P. Mielke ist als Autor zielstrebig seinen Weg vom Romanheft über das anspruchsvolle Taschenbuch bis zum Hardcover gegangen. Und man kann feststellen, dass sich die Qualität seiner Arbeit parallel dazu fast kontinuierlich gesteigert hat. Thomas R. P. Mielke hat eine beispielhafte Karriere bis hin zum Bestsellerautor hingelegt – ein Vorzeigeautor, dem hier zu seinem achtzigsten Geburtstag von Herzen gratuliert wird.

As the author of The Condition of the Working Class in England and, along with Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels is a seminal 19th-century figure; the co-founder of Marxism, he left an indelible impression as a philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian and revolutionary socialist. The Life, Work and Legacy of Friedrich Engels is nevertheless the first book to comprehensively explore Engels' contributions in all of these spheres....

To mark the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith’s birth, the 37th Heilbronn Symposium on Economics and the Social Sciences was dedicated to his outstanding oeuvre, but above all to his most famous work, “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” (1776), which is regarded as a keystone of modern economics. The influence of Smith’s doctrine has made a lasting contribution to the development of a modern understanding of society and the economy and, in particular, the functio...

This edited volume discusses the reception and application of Keynesian economics in Europe during the 20th century. The main focus of the book is the case of West Germany, where the strong position of Keynesian economics (primarily of the neoclassical synthesis type) at most universities since the 1950s contrasted with Ordoliberalism and the concept of the Social Market Economy, which became dominant German economic policy after the war. Chapter contributions focus on important pioneers o...

Alles wird gut. – Warum man Kindern heute noch diesen Bären aufbindet, ist schwer zu erklären. Am wahrscheinlichsten ist, dass es sich um eine simple Kompensation handelt – der Tatsache nämlich, dass dem eben gerade *nicht* so ist! Glaubt man dem Volksmund, dem man ansonsten eher misstrauen sollte, kommt nichts Besseres nach. Die Erkenntnis, dass Freiheit nichts mit der Freiheit, alles Gewünschte konsumieren zu können, zu tun hat, ist in den meisten Köpfen noch lange nicht angekommen. Gera...

This edited volume discusses the life and scholarship of Friedrich Engels. Written to commemorate the two-hundred-year anniversary of Engels’ birth, the contributions take a look into his research from a variety of viewpoints, trace the influence of his predecessors, and critically evaluate his place within 19th century scholarship. In addition, specific topics are taken up, such as his (mis)assessment of American capitalism, his influence on the Italian labor movement, the thematization o...

This edited volume addresses the theoretical and historical foundations of the German Social Market Economy. Written to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the Social Market Economy, chapter contributions discuss the ideas of its theoretical founders—Walter Eucken, Alfred Müller-Armack, Wilhelm Röpke, and Franz Böhm--as well as related influences such as Ordoliberalism, the historical school of economics, and the Catholic social doctrine. In addition, chapters analyze ...

This book discusses the work of German economists Gustav von Schmoller and Adolph Wagner, its influence on the tradition of German and Austrian economic and social thought, and its implications for the discipline today. Schmoller and Wagner integrated philosophical, historical, sociological and political approaches into the science of economics, focusing specifically on economic development. Schmoller, who is considered the head of the second generation of the German Historical School, arg...

Das Lebenswerk eines revolutionären Denkers, interdisziplinär betrachtetSeit der Industriellen Revolution vor 200 Jahren gelten Technik, Arbeit und Kapital als entscheidende Bestimmungsgrößen des ökonomischen und sozialen Fortschritts von Gesellschaften. Der Autodidakt Friedrich Engels setzte sich gemeinsam mit Karl Marx kritisch mit den Auswirkungen der Industrialisierung für die Arbeiterschaft auseinander. Dank seiner gewandten Feder und seiner Fremdsprachenkenntn...

This book discusses the history and socioeconomic impact of Rerum novarum, the first Catholic social encyclical. Drawn from research presented at the 2016 Heilbronn Symposia on Economics and the Social Sciences, this book resumes the discussion on the origin, dissemination and impact of the Catholic social doctrine which originated in this epoch-making encyclical, arguing that the fundamental concepts of this doctrine have had long-standing influence on the development of the mode...