This book retraces the history of macroeconomics from Keynes's General Theory to the present. Central to it is the contrast between a Keynesian era and a Lucasian - or dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) - era, each ruled by distinct methodological standards.

The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism.

Wirtschaften, um sich selbst zu erhalten? Was eigentlich selbstverständlich ist, bleibt in der ökonomischen Theorie und in den sozialpolitischen Debatten oft nur eine Randnotiz.

Experimental economists are leaving the reservation. They are recruiting subjects in the field rather than in the classroom, using field goods rather than induced valuations, and using field context rather than abstract terminology in instructions.

In this book, the author critically examines a number of socialist proposals that have been put forward since the end of the Cold War. It is shown that although these proposals have many merits, their inability effectively to incorporate the benefits of information technology into their models has limited their ability to solve the problem of socialist construction. The final section of the book proposes an entirely new model of socialist development, based on a "needs profile" that makes it possible to convert the needs of large numbers of people into data that can be used as a guide for resource allocation. This analysis makes it possible to rethink and carefully specify the conditions necessary for the abolition of capital and consequently the requirements for socialist revolution and, ultimately, communist society.

Over the last decade, the world's largest corporations - from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever - have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery. Yet, by most measures, across many sectors and regions, severe labour exploitation continues to soar. Corporate social responsibility is not working. Why?

Mehr als ein Jahrzehnt lang hat die aus Ökonomik, Soziologie und Philosophie zusammengesetzte Oldenburger Forschungsgruppe Unternehmen und gesellschaftliche Organisation (FUGO) an einer kulturalistischen Theorie der Unternehmung gearbeitet und dazu zahlreiche Bücher und Aufsätze publiziert.