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• 2000

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Gouvernementalität der Gegenwart - Studien zur Ökonomisierung des Sozialen

By: Ulrich Bröckling, Susanne Krasmann, Thomas Lemke

Im angelsächsischen Raum hat sich eine Forschungsrichtung etabliert, die Foucaults Machtanalytik produktiv aufgenommen und weiterentwickelt hat: die governmentality studies. Der vorliegende Band knüpft an jene Forschungen an und erschließt das von Foucault entwickelte Instrumentarium für eine Analyse aktueller gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche. Gemeinsamer Bezugspunkt der exemplarischen Studien ist d...

• 1992

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Faktizität und Geltung - Beiträge zur Diskurstheorie des Rechts und des demokratischen Rechtsstaats

By: Jürgen Habermas

In den ersten beiden Kapiteln verfolgt Habermas das doppelte Ziel zu erklären, warum die Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns der Kategorie des Rechts einen zentralen Stellenwert einräumt und warum sie ihrerseits für eine Diskurstheorie des Rechts einen geeigneten Kontext bildet. Dabei geht es um die Herausarbeitung eines rekonstruktiven Ansatzes, der beide Perspektiven in sich aufnimmt: die der...

Scientific paper • 1991

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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

By: Elinor Ostrom

The publisher: The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatisation of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. Offering a critique of the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natu...

• 1987

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Growth, Distribution and Prices

By: Stephen A. Marglin

What determines the rate of growth, the distribution of income, and the structure of relative prices under capitalism? What, in short, makes capitalist economies tick? This watershed treatise analyzes the answers to these questions provided by three major theoretical traditions: neoclassical, neo-Marxian, and neo-Keynesian. Until now, the mutual criticism exchanged by partisans of the different...

Scientific paper • 1985

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Reflections on 'rationality' and 'development'

By: Cornelius Castoriadis, John Murphy

For some time now, 'development' has been simultaneously the motto and theme of the official and 'professional' ideology - as well as government policies. It is perhaps useful to recall briefly the genealogy of the notion. Text of a Conference paper given at Florence in 1974. First published in Esprit, May 1976. Reprinted (with a lengthy discussion, not  given here) in C. Mendes ed., le Myth...

• 1921

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Cartesian Economics

By: Frederick Soddy

Back of the book: Cartesian Economics, The Bearing of Physical Science upon State Stewardship is a compilation of two lectures given by Frederick Soddy to the student unions of Birbeck College and the London School of Economics. The lectures were the first of four works written between 1921 and 1934 that applied the concepts of hard science to the economy. Though Soddy's ideas were largely reje...