"The era of savage money began on 15 August 1971 when the US Government, financially weakened by the Vietnam War, was forced to renounce its control over the gold market. This freed the price of gold from government control for the first time since 1934 and created a new commodi…
Die Fleischwirtschaft ist eine in Deutschland in der ökonomischen Forschung bislang wenig beachtete Branche und dies, obwohl sie mit einem Wertschöpfungsteil von rund 20 % der wichtigste Sektor der Ernährungswirtschaft ist und ihre Spitzenposition in den letzten Jahren weiter au…
This book offers a comprehensive critique of the Walrasian general equilibrium approach and argues that it cannot account for the behaviour of the real economy at a microeconomic level. This book will be of great interest to scholars of the history of economic thought and microe…
eSport: Status quo und Entwicklungspotenziale
This edited collection offers an in-depth analysis of the complex and changing relationship between the arts and their markets. Highly relevant to almost any sociological exploration of the arts, this interaction has long been approached and studied. However, rapid and far-reach…
"If you want to understand the bewildering complexity of consumer markets, financial markets and beyond, the traditional textbooks or theories wouldn't help much. This book presents a new market theory in which information plays the most important role. We portray the markets wi…
The early modern marketplace and its colonial encounter:A journey through early modern trading spaces --The market turned upside down --Remaking the marketplace:Making a colonial marketplace --The resurgence of early modern market value --Confronting the colonial marketplace:Rev…
Gegen den Big-Other-Kapitalismus ist Big Brother harmlos. Die Menschheit steht am Scheideweg, sagt die Harvard-Ökonomin Shoshana Zuboff. Bekommt die Politik die wachsende Macht der High-Tech-Giganten in den Griff? Oder überlassen wir uns der verborgenen Logik des Überwachungskap…