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Anhand der Anwendung einer politisch-ökonomischen Perspektive auf Geld und Geldschöpfung soll aufgezeigt werden, auf welche Weise ein solcher Analyserahmen helfen kann, Diskussionen um Staatsschulden und Wirtschaftskrisen zu versachlichen.
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Based on the concept of limited and open access orders (LAO/OAO), this paper explains what appears to be a paradox: how was it possible that a former civil war country, Mozambique, which had been extremely successful in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) and which the International Monetary Fund praised as a great Sub-Sahara African success...
The article analyzes the reception of the idea of convergence in Soviet economics from the 1960s to the end of the 1980s. It is predominantly concerned with convergence theory as a policy idea that inspired perestroika. Its central question is: Under the conditions of an authoritarian regime, how could an imported policy idea that bluntly contradic...
Das jüngst neu erwachte Interesse am Ordoliberalismus im Zuge der Eurokrise sowie der drohende Ordnungszerfall der Weltwirtschaft bieten die Gelegenheit, die Ordnungsökonomik inhaltlich, methodisch und rhetorisch neu aufzustellen. Dieser Beitrag setzt sich kritisch mit dem Erbe des Ordoliberalismus auseinander und zeigt Möglichkeiten auf, wie diese...
The present article asks what lessons the empirical case of institutional change in post-Soviet Russia yields for the recent research on ideas and institutions. Its main point is that in post-Soviet Russia a clash between imported foreground ideas and deep domestic background ideas led to an ideational division among the elite of the country that b...
In 2014, the Faculty of Management and Economics at Witten/Herdecke University introduced its first international programme, the MA PPE, which served as a test case within the overall internationalisation strategy. Despite the challenges detailed in this paper the overall implementation deemed successful. The university derived many valuable lesson...
Die Analyse der Zusammenhänge zwischen wirtschaftlicher und gesellschaftlicher Ordnung hat in Politik- und Wirtschaftswissenschaft nicht nur eine lange Tradition, sondern erlebt derzeit auch eine lebhafte Renaissance. Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die früheren und heutigen Beiträge zu dieser Thematik. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei...
In the history of Russian economic ideas, a peculiar mix of anthropocentrism and holism provided fertile breeding ground for patterns of thought that were in potential conflict with the market. These patterns, did not render the emergence of capitalism in Russia impossible. But they entailed a deep intellectual division between adherents and oppone...
This article draws conclusions based on an analysis of the relationship between economic ideas and institutional
change in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, so far covering roughly the years from 1971 to 2007. It analyses
the recent debate on economic modernisation in Russian economics. We argue that the relative failure of
transition has to be seen i...
Die Analyse der Zusammenhänge zwischen wirtschaftlicher und gesellschaftlicher Ordnung hat in Politik- und Wirtschaftswissenschaft nicht nur eine lange Tradition, sondern erlebt derzeit auch eine lebhafte Renaissance. Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die früheren und heutigen Beiträge zu dieser Thematik. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei...
Von Beginn an haben die modernen Wirtschaftswissenschaften gesellschaftliche Prozesse nicht nur beobachtet und beschrieben, sondern diese auch selbst katalysiert und beeinflusst. Da-mit haben sie einer Entwicklung den Weg gebahnt, die neben unbestrittenen Erfolgen zu ökologischen Zerstörungen, sozialen Verwerfungen und immer wiederkehrenden ökonomi...
Heinrich Winkler’s two volume history of Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth century is titled Der lange Weg nach Westen. For him, ‘nach Westen’ means becoming a Western democracy, like England, France and the US. How did they do it?Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast, in their book Violence and Social Orders: a Framework for Interp...
Die moderne Volkswirtschaftslehre tut sich mit der Analyse von Transformationsprozessen außerordentlich schwer. Das liegt vor allem daran, dass sie selbst ein Kind der „Great Transformation“ (Polanyi 2001[1944]) ist – jenes Prozesses der funktionalen Ausdifferenzierung eines ökonomischen Subsystems aus der Gesellschaft, das zwar nicht unverbunden n...
An intense discussion is taking place in international political economy on the influence of economic ideas on institutional change. Case studies so far have, however, mainly focused on the Western industrialised countries and research seems to be biased towards cases in which new ideas caused lasting institutional change. The present paper address...
The paper investigates the current status of economic research in Russia using a previously unexplored dataset of Russian ‘Doctor of Science’ (Dr.Sc.) theses. The Dr.Sc. degree is a postdoctoral qualification necessary for career advancement at most Russian universities. By examining the Dr.Sc. theses, we are able to provide a systematic overview o...
The present paper is part of a larger project by the same author that deals with the relationship between economic ideas and institutional change in post-socialist Russia. The paper develops two main theses: First, it argues that the concept of “developed socialism” as introduced by Leonid Brezhnev in 1971 on the one hand deprived the planned econo...
The paper argues that there are certain parallels between the ideas of ordoliberalism and the framework of limited and open access order (LAO/OAO) as developed by North, Wallis, Webb and Weingast (NWWW): Both approaches focus on the “interdependence of orders”, and both share an emphasis on state capacity in processes of social transition. I also a...
In the relevant literature, different answers have been given to the question whether German neo-liberalism has its roots in the tradition of Anglo-Saxon liberalism or whether it reflects specific German traditions of thought. The paper focuses on the question how the German neo-liberals deal with the problem of social cohesion. The differences bet...
Whereas relatively much has been written about the Russian/Soviet economists repressed and killed or forced into emigration under Stalin, the story of those who were psychologically broken but could continue their work still has to be written. Based on published as well as archive materials, this paper aims at giving insights into the fate of a neg...
The differences in transition performance among the former socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe have sometimes been traced back to specific historical or cultural legacies without sufficiently taking into account the impact of EU conditionality. In this context the cases of Bulgaria and Romania are particularly interesting, because the...
Functioning markets require a state that will enforce property rights; contracts mediated by money; and the prevalence of a certain type of morality that prevents people from cheating in complex exchange relationships. Monetary exchange abstracts from the personal loyalties that bind small groups together, but at the same time it creates an overarc...
There is a new debate on shock therapy versus gradualism in economics, this time referring to developing and emerging countries.
The French Revolution and its impact on the other European nations has repeatedly been highlighted as a historical example
for both the merits and pitfalls of the Big Bang strategy. The present paper argues that a compari...
To modernise both an economy and society, as well as to boost competitiveness in a given country, institutions from successful countries are transferred to less successful ones. At the same time, local political actors decide to a large extent whether the transfer and expansion of institutions will succeed. For they alone have the cultural knowledg...
This article is a continuation of two essays by the same author on Soviet and Russian economic debates between 1987 and 2002 published in Europe-Asia Studies in 2006 and 2007. In the most recent phase of these debates, between 2003 and 2007, as in previous phases, the questions raised went far beyond the usual realm of economics. The questions rais...
The paper gives an overview over the discussion about the importance of the market for social cohesion in German economic thought in the 19th and early 20th century. During this period close ties were kept between economics and sociology in Germany. As a result, there still was an intense reception of Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments in the...
Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, there is again a debate on shock therapy versus gradualism, this time with regard to developing and emerging societies. This debate was mainly triggered by Dani Rodrik (2007), who argues that reform programmes in poor countries should not be implemented according to a one fits all development bluepri...
In Douglass C. North's works on institutional change, his focus shifted from formal institutions and highly rational actors to the links between culture, cognition, and the evolution of institutions. This has led to a corresponding shift in his basic explanation of institutional change: In his earlier works, institutional change is mainly caused by...
Zusammenfassung Die globale Wirtschafts-und Finanzkrise hat Russland besonders hart getroffen. Dies ist vor allem darauf zurückzuführen, dass
Staat und Wirtschaft wieder eine zunehmend engere Bindung eingehen. Für die Zukunft hält es Joachim Zweynert für unabdingbar,
den „Weg in den Staatskapitalismus“ zu verlassen.
Vor 60 Jahren – am 20. Juni 1948 – wurde mit der Währungsreform in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland der Grundstein für die Soziale
Marktwirtschaft gelegt. Handelt es sich dabei um ein reales Konzept oder lediglich um eine Marketingidee? Wo liegen die historischen
Wurzeln? Worauf beruht der Erfolg dieses Ansatzes?
The history of Russian economic ideas from the sixteenth century to contemporary times is a fascinating, tumultuous yet neglected topic among Western scholars. Whilst over the last 15 years increasing amounts of work has been done on the subject, co-operation between Russian and Western researchers in this field leaves much to be desired. In order...
BarnettVincent, The Revolutionary Russian Economy, 1890–1940: Ideas, Debates and Alternatives (London and New York: Routledge, 2004) pp. xii, 144, $105, ISBN 0-4153-1264-7. - Volume 29 Issue 1 - Joachim Zweynert
Since Moses Abramovitz's “classic” paper on “Catching-Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind” (1986) economists have become increasingly aware again of the significance of “social capability” for processes of economic change. During the past twenty years much research has been done on “soft” determinants of development and growth. Especially some of...
After a paradigm shift in Russian economics around 1990, in the period 1992 – 2002 Russian economists increasingly returned to the path-dependent shared mental models that had prevailed earlier in their country. In particular, after the liberal reform concept seemed to have failed to solve the socio-economic problems of transition, the old debate b...
Seit den gescheiterten EU-Verfassungsreferenden in Frankreich und in den Niederlanden 2005 hat sich die Diskussion um ein Europäisches Wirtschafts- und Sozialmodell intensiviert. Nur selten wird indes die Frage nach den tieferen Gründen für das Aufkommen der Debatte gestellt. Die These des vorliegenden Beitrages lautet, es sei lohnend, sich dem The...
In der bestehenden Literatur wird die Frage nach der Verortung des deutschen Ordo- und Neoliberalismus unterschiedlich beantwortet. Manche Autoren sehen sie vornehmlich in der angelsächsischen Tradition (Grossekettler 1997, Sally 1998a, Starbatty 2002, Vanberg 2004), andere betonen ihre Verwurzelung in den Fragestellungen und Methoden der deutschen...
The present study is a continuation of an earlier paper by the same author dealing with the economic debates in the Soviet Union between 1987 and 1991 (HWWA Discussion Paper 324; Europe-Asia Studies vol. 58, no. 2). After there had been a paradigm shift in Russian economics around 1990, in the period under review the Russian economists increasingly...
The article analyses the shift in ideas that took place in Soviet economic thought between 1987 and 1991 and its relation to the changes in the real economy. The main focus of the article is on the issue of whether the evolution of Soviet economic thought in the analysed period changed in a gradual, path-dependent manner, or in a discontinuous, rev...
Based on a relativist approach to the history of economic thought, in this paper it is argued that both Gustav Schmoller’s methodology and his views on economic and social policy can be seen as a reaction to the challenges Germany’s increasing integration into the world econ-omy brought about. We hold that his integrated, dialectical understanding...
The question of how far it is necessary to include cultural factors in the analysis of economic processes has become topical again in recent years. The first contribution to this Forum introduces a cultural approach to economics. This is followed by an article that examines the transition processes in central and eastern Europe from an econocultura...
The paper deals with the connection between politically induced catch-up development, cultural and intellectual traditions and economic order in Germany and Russia. It is argued that in the history of both countries we encounter significant structural parallels, including the totalitarian experience. After World War II the German political élite ma...
The increasing gap between the transition countries with regard to both their economic and political performance cannot be explained by their different starting conditions after the breakdown of the Soviet Union alone. Rather, it is due to cultural and historical circumstances that shape the particular tradition and societal environment. The paper...
In recent years, institutional and evolutionary economists have become increasingly aware that ideas play an important role in economic development. In the current literature, the problem is usually elaborated upon in purely theoretical terms. In the present paper it is argued that ideas are always also shaped by historical and cultural factors. Du...
The increasing gap between the formerly socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CE & EE) with regard to both their economic and political performance cannot be explained by their different starting conditions after the breakdown of the Soviet Union alone. Rather, it is due to cultural and historical circumstances that shape the particula...
The article deals with the development and reception of the so-called theory of internal goods, which is to be considered as one of the most fascinating contributions of Russian intellectual history to economic thought. The theory of internal goods investigates the connections between cultural and economic development. It clearly reflects the quest...
Mit dem Beitritt zehn neuer Mitgliedstaaten zum 1. Mai 2004 erreicht die Europäische Integration eine neue Dimension. Nicht weniger als 74 Millionen Menschen werden als zusätzliche Anbieter und Nachfrager von Waren und Dienstleistungen auf dem Europäischen Binnenmarkt auftreten. Welche ökonomischen Folgen sind zu erwarten? Wo stehen die Beitrittslä...
