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The literature on systems seems to have been growing almost expo nentially during the last decade and one may question whether there is need for another book. In the author's view, most of the literature on 'systems' is either technical in mathematical sense or technical ifF engineering sense (with technical words such as noise, filtering etc. ) and not easily accessible to researchers is other fields, in particular not to economists, econometricians and quantitative researchers in so cial sci...

This book argues that the recently deceased Capitalism-Socialism debate was wrong-headed from the beginning - like a 'debate' over private or public ownership of slaves. The question was not private or public slavery, but slavery versus self-ownership. Similarly, this book argues that the question is not whether people should be private employees (capitalism) or public employees (socialism) but whether people should be hired or rented as employees at all versus always being jointly self-employed...

In light of the public and scholarly debates on the challenges and problems of established democracies, such as a lack of participation, declining confidence in political elites, and the deteriorating capabilities of democratic institutions, this volume discusses the question whether democracy as such is in crisis. On the basis of the shared concept of embedded democracy, it develops a range of conceptual approaches to empirically analyzing the challenges of democracy and their potential transfo...

This edited collection is a novel book with contributions from eleven expert researchers on the history of tourism in Europe. This book explores the growth of tourism in contemporary postwar Europe, especially during the periods following the First and Second World Wars and the Spanish Civil War. It reveals both the work carried out by social agents and institutions to develop tourism, and the contribution of tourism in boosting the economy and the recovery of morale in the Old Continent Its or...

Marxism has collapsed but it remains to be seen whether resurgent capitalism will avoid the pitfalls that gave rise to socialism in the twentieth century. Capital For Profit, originally published in France under the title L'ANTICAPITALISME, makes available to English-speaking readers an incisive reconsideration of classical economics and the nature of capitalism at a crucial moment in political economics. Paul Fabra, economist and columnist for Le Monde, draws upon a lifetime of reflection on se...

In this volume, the methodological aspects of the scenario logic and probabilistic (LP) non-success risk management are considered. The theoretical bases of scenario non-success risk LP-management in business and engineering are also stated. Methods and algorithms for the scenario risk LP-management in problems of classification, investment and effectiveness are described. Risk LP- models and results of numerical investigations for credit risks, risk of frauds, security portfolio risk, risk of q...

In this volume, the authors stress the importance of a balance between historical circumstance and ex-novo design (evolution and revolution) for feasible and flexible rules of international finance, and apply this lesson to the debate on a new international financial architecture.

This book provides a wide-ranging and in-depth reappraisal of the relation between Marx's economic theory in Capital and Hegel's Logic by leading Marxian economists and philosophers from around the world. The subjects dealt with include: systematic dialectics, the New Dialectics, materialism vs. idealism, Marx's 'inversion' of Hegel, Hegel's Concept logic, Hegel's Essence logic, Marx's levels of abstraction of capital in general and competition, and capital as Hegelian Subject.

Ausgehend von den Funktions- und Strukturunterschieden zwischen Banken einer plan- und einer marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnung und den sich hieraus ergebenden Aufgaben bei der Umgestaltung des Bankwesens analysiert die Arbeit, welche konkreten Ergebnisse die Transformation des Bankensektors in Polen seit 1989 erbracht hat. Im Kontext der (neuen) politischen Okonomie steht dabei die Rolle des Staates im Zentrum der Analyse. Die Untersuchung beleuchtet die politischen und okonomischen Faktoren sowie d...

Human Action-a treatise on laissez-faire capitalism by Ludwig von Mises-is a historically important and classic publication on economics, and yet it can be an intimidating work due to its length and formal style. Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action, however, skilfully relays the main insights from Human Action in a style that will resonate with modern readers. The book assumes no prior knowledge in economics or other fields, and, when necessary, it provides the historical and schol...

If values conflict and rival human interests clash we often have to weigh them against each other. However, under particular conditions incommensurability prevents the assignment of determinable and impartial weights. In those cases an objective balance does not exist. The original thesis of this book sheds new light on aspects of incommensurability and its implications for public decision-making, ethics and justice. Martijn Boot analyzes a number of previously ignored or unrecognized concepts...

This proceedings volume contains extended abstracts of talks presented at the 18th Symposium on Operations Research held at the University of Cologne, September 1-3, 1993. The Symposia on Operations Research are the annual meetings of the Gesellschaft fiir Mathematik, Okonometrie und Operations Research (GMOOR), a scientific society providing a link between research and applications in the areas of applied mathematics, economics and operations research. The broad range of interests and scientifi...

In Philosophy After Marx, Christoph Henning writes a concise history of mis-readings of Marx in the 20th century. Focusing on German philosophy from Heidegger to Habermas, he also addresses the influence of Rawls and Neopragmatism, subsequently scrutinizing a previous history of Marx - interpretations that had served as the premises upon which these later works were based. With the recent resurgence of interest in Marx, Henning's historical recursions make evident where and how academic Anti-Mar...

For centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas and political action. This highly teachable collection of contextualized primary sources allows students to follow European and North American discussions about intertwined and evolving concepts of population, resources, and the natural environment from early contexts in the sixteenth century through to the present day. Edited and introduced by Robert J. Mayhew, a noted biographer of Thoma...

This book is a wide-ranging analysis of the nature of economic planning in both capitalist and state socialist societies. It seeks to establish an alternative to market forces as a means of co-ordinating decentralized economic decisions. The author begins with an analysis of the theory and practice of capitalist planning, central planning and market socialism. He argues that, while market socialism is currently favoured by many economists who reject both capitalism and the command planning of Ea...

This book presents the most recent methods for analyzing and visualizing symbolic data. It generalizes classical methods of exploratory, statistical and graphical data analysis to the case of complex data. Several benchmark examples from National Statistical Offices illustrate the usefulness of the methods. The book contains an extensive bibliography and a subject index.