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The Legal Dialogue (2010–2012)
In 2004, the EU’s then outgoing Commission President, Romano Prodi, described the Russia–EU relationship as ‘anything but institutions’. This was...
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Why Do Women at the Top of Organizations Do Worse?
The gender gap is higher at the top end of the earnings distribution. Private-sector senior executives inhabit a male-dominated milieu with high...
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How to Analyze Transformative Processes in the Constitution of Markets? The Example of Solar Power Technology in Germany 1990–2007
The term Energiewende (literally “energy turn”) implies a double turn towards renewables and towards economic liberalization and private investments...
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Entrepreneurial Dynasties
The Industrial Revolution gave rise to a new high-status echelon in the nineteenth century. One part of this tier was entrepreneurial dynasties, in...
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Government and Consumer Economic Wellbeing
Government can enhance consumer economic wellbeing through various approaches. One major approach is to regulate the market to rebalance powers...
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The Red–Green Revolution (1998–2005)
A political revolution took place in 1998, when post-War Germany got its first completely new governing coalition. For a brief time, popular will...
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Overview
One of the lessons that could be drawn from past experiences of countries suffering from the ‘middle-income trap’ is the failure to take advantage of...
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Consensus measures for various informational bases. Three new proposals and two case studies from political science
We study consensus measures that quantify the cohesiveness of the information generated when a group of decision-makers express their evaluations of...
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The 1990s: Laying the Foundations for the Energiewende
In 1990, an unlikely coalition of parliamentary backbenchers fought hard to pass a law that would later turn into a world-class policy: a nationwide...
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Introduction: Earthviews and Worldviews
A stark political division exists today in the Western world on environmental issues. The left is more sympathetic to green concerns than the right,...
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Politicians as consumer advocates instead of quasi-capitalists
Most would agree that the public wealth could be managed better. This book, however, makes a much more far-reaching claim. Better institutions to...
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Consumer Interests and Economic Wellbeing
This chapter discusses consumer economic wellbeing from a political perspective: how consumers pursue their rights in the marketplace through a...
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Utilities Bet on Gas and Coal and Renewables Boom (2005–2011)
Before Fukushima, Chancellor Merkel was still a demure leader who enforced the party line, which still focused on big utility needs. For their part,...
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Zweite Fallstudie: Die Akteursqualität der EU in der Welthandelsorganisation (WTO)
Nach der in Brüssel erfolgten “GATTastrophe”(Vgl. Michael Northop: The Uruguay Round: A GATTastrophe, in: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 18...
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The debate over weight- versus price-based taxation of snuff in the United States’ state legislatures
Discount snuff, known for its cheap price, high nicotine content, and popularity among youth, has increased substantially in market share in the...
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The Costs of Paying, or Three Histories of Swi**
The transitive verb “swipe” traditionally describes acts of theft and violence. To swipe something means to steal it, while swi** at someone means...
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Economic Freedom and Life Satisfaction: Mediation by Income per Capita and Generalized Trust
Several researches have shown that economic freedom is positively related to life satisfaction. Only a few studies, however, have examined which...
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Collective Redress: A Breakthrough or a Damp Sqibb?
In June 2013, the European Commission issued its long-awaited policy on collective redress. The proposal is in fact about collective actions and...
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Schlüsselwerke der Organisationsforschung
In Abgrenzung zum Mainstream der Organisationsforschung, der Organisationen unhinterfragt als grundsätzlich geschlechtsneutral und asexuell...
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Einleitung: Diskursforschung und Ökonomie
Die Ökonomie ist diskursiv: Ohne diskursive Praktiken und ohne diskursive Konstruktionen kann es weder die Ökonomie als Wirtschaft swissenschaft (en)...