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  • Great Nations at Peril
    Jürgen Backhaus
    This book was prompted by the current, lingering financial crisis, which has its basis in the disorderly financial practices of the United States. These practices have resulted in an accumulated debt which now requires the United States to run financial policies at artificially low interest rates. In principle, these low interest rates should flood the markets with ready money....
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    68,28 €

  • The University According to Humboldt
    Jurgen Georg Backhaus
    This book discusses the philosophy and educational reforms initiated by Wilhelm von Humboldt as well as their legacy in the modern university system. It begins with a discussion of the history of the university from antiquity and the Middle Ages through the era of Humboldt’s reforms and its remnants in and implications for the present day. The authors then delve into policy, ou...
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    66,94 €

  • The Liberation of the Serfs
    Jürgen Backhaus
    In Europe, the liberation of the serfs was a project initiated in 1806 with a scheduled completion date of 1810. It was obvious to those who planned the project that the liberation of the serfs involved a complete overhaul of agriculture as it was then known as Europe moved from feudalism to capitalism. For this reason, Prussia was careful in implementing the reform, and did no...
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    135,57 €

  • Two Centuries of Local Autonomy
    Jürgen Backhaus
    One of the last Prussian Reforms during the Napoleonic Era was the constitution of local autonomy for the cities. Proof of its lasting importance is that it was the cities that carried out the deficit-based employment policies of the early 1930s also had to carry the burden of a democratic reconstitution of Germany in the postwar period. After the crushing defeat at Napoleon’s ...
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    134,69 €

  • Handbook of the History of Economic Thought
    Jürgen Backhaus
    This reader in the history of economic thought challenges the assumption that today’s prevailing economic theories are always the most appropriate ones. As Leland Yeager has pointed out, unlike the scientists of the natural sciences, economists provide their ideas largely to politicians and political appointees who have rather different incentives that might prevent them from c...
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    267,03 €

  • The Beginnings of Scholarly Economic Journalism
    Jürgen Backhaus
    The twin journals, Der Österreichische Volkswirt (The Austrian Economist) and Der Deutsche Volkswirt (The German Economist) were created by Gustav Stolper, godfather of Joseph Schumpeter, first in Vienna and then after the First World War, in Berlin. Schumpeter was to become a frequent contributor of the Berlin-based journal, which combined a successful blend of economic analys...
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    160,46 €

  • Physiocracy, Antiphysiocracy and Pfeiffer
    JÜRGEN BACKHAUS
    Physiocracy, or the economic theory that a nation’s wealth comes from is agricultural and land development, was a popular school of thought in France in the 18th century. The contribution and significance of the Physiocrats and Antiphysiocrats are explored in detail through chapter contributions by economists, philosophers, and social historians. The book concludes that neith...
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    134,43 €

  • Modern Applications of Austrian Thought
    Jürgen G. Backhaus
    Austrian economics is often criticized as being hostile to empirical research and seen purely as an ideology. In contrast, this book shows that Austrian economics provides an interesting approach to most conceivable subjects in economics. ...
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    87,44 €

  • The State as Utopia
    Jürgen Backhaus
    This book examines utopias in classical political economy and is based on the papers presented by leading scholars at the 22nd Heilbronn Symposium in the Economics and the Social Sciences. The book focuses on the tension between the State and utopia (the State as utopia vs. utopia instead of a state). The contributors also study the question of whether seafaring and landlocked...
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    134,40 €

  • Joseph Alois Schumpeter
    Jürgen G. Backhaus
    Joseph Alois Schumpeter is arguably the most important economist of the 20th century. Most readers are familiar with his Theory of Economic Development and his classic Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Less well-known are his seminal works published before he left Europe for the United States in 1942. In particular for the first time the missing ...
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    207,33 €

  • The Beginnings of Political Economy
    Jürgen Backhaus
    From Wolff to Justi.- A Bibliography of J.H.G. von Justi.- Johann Heinrich Gottlob von Justi - The Life and Times of an Economist Adventurer.- Justi and the Post-Montesquieu French Debate on Commercial Nobility in 1756.- The International Aspects of Justi’s Work.- Justi and Japan.- Justi’s Concept of Moral Economics and the Good Society.- Cameralism and Labour in von Justi’s Ec...
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    183,50 €

  • Political Economy, Linguistics and Culture
    Jürgen Backhaus
    A Language Bridge between Peoples and Disciplines.- The Theory and Measurement of Influence in the History of Economic Thought.- Gustave Courbet’s L’Origine du Monde and Its Socioeconomic Implications.- to Blum’s Essays.- Contrasting Historical-Logical Narrative Conventions in Germany and Austria and Their Influence upon Inquiry and Explanation in the Arts and the Sciences: An ...
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    220,12 €

  • Europe in Progress
    Jürgen G. Backhaus / Sabine Urban
    Introduction Europe in Progress, Model and Facts is the second volume in the series Europe’s Economic Future launched in 1994. It is in keeping with the will expressed by the University Robert Schuman and implemented by CESAG, the research centre of IECS Strasburg, to observe and to analyse European reality; not through idealized models or abstract di...
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    84,62 €