Wolfram Elsner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 317106 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Wolfram Elsner |
| NOMBRES | Wolfram |
| APELLIDO | Elsner |
| FIRMA | ELSNER W |
| AFILIACIONES | ING Direct |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6678-7879 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 16 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The “Triumph of Imbecile Institutions Over Life”
This article links late Neoliberal Financialized Capitalism (NFC) with biopolitics, identity crises, and emerging death cults. It is argued that late NFC entails spreading violence in state and society, increasing premature and violent deaths in growing subcultures. Individualistic ideologies—which lower social strata now embrace as enabling myths—suggest renewed celebration of struggle for survival and death cults. From an institutionalist persp…
Complex Thinking in the History of Economic Thought. Aspects of Economic Complexity from Ancient Times to Modernity With the Case of Evolutionary-Institutional Economics and With Policy Implications
We highlight a number of examples of complex thinking from ancient times to the current edge. We refer the earlier complexity perspectives to the cutting-edge understanding of complex adaptive (economic) systems. This illustrates that simplistic (neoclassical) equilibrium thinking is a big exemption rather than the 'normal' in HET. Since the 1980s, the mathematical, statistical, data, and computational resources have been fully developed and in f…
Complex thinking in the history of economic thought
We highlight a number of examples of complex thinking from ancient times to the current edge. We refer the earlier complexity perspectives to the cutting-edge understanding of complex adaptive (economic) systems. This illustrates that simplistic (neoclassical) equilibrium thinking is a big exemption rather than the 'normal' in HET. Since the 1980s, the mathematical, statistical, data, and computational resources have been fully developed and in f…
Globalisation, de-globalisation, re-globalisation. On old globalisation, de-globalisation pre- and under Corona, and the restructuring of VACs 'post-Corona'
We analyse 'old' globalisation as a process that endogenously lead into global troubles. 'Old' globalisation, from some point, thus was paradoxically characterised by reactive de-globalisations. Also the USA, against a reverted cost-benefit relation from globalisation for itself, changed its strategy and politically accelerated already ongoing de-globalisations. COVID-19 has further reinforced de-globalisation by interrupting international value-…
Shrinking Trust in Growing China
Emergence and growth, or deterioration, of general trust, endogenously depend on socio-economic transformations. This paper attempts to explain a shrinking general trust in China, against the background of its ‘reform-opening up’ phase, by means of repeated prisoners’ dilemma games on networks. We find that the more anonymous large-scale interaction arenas for immigrants in the boom regions, where lack of new, more appropriate network structures …
Growth and Development of China
The aim of the paper is twofold: 1. to examine the identities and differences of the Chinese model of the developmental and entrepreneurial state ‘with Chinese characteristics’ with the general East Asian developmental state model, and 2. to derive some perspectives for the future of the particular Chinese model of the developmental state. The paper is structured as follows. The first main section briefly discusses China’s growth performance and …
Welcome to the Policy - Analysis Issue of the Forum , 3-2017
Welcome to the History of Thought Issue of the Forum , 1-2016
Dear Reader,General news from the ForumThere was another successful Editorial Board meeting together with ASE officers and representatives of the publisher Taylor and Francis at the ASSA conference
The Well-being, Happiness, and Trust Issue of the Forum for Social Economics
Dear Reader,Another thematic issue of the Forum is in your hand. With a little Symposium on Trust nicely integrated in the general theme. The paper themes are going perfectly hand in hand:growth an
Welcome to the Gender, Elderly, and Needs Issue of the Forum for Social Economics #2-2014
From Emergent Cooperation to Contextual Trust, and to General Trust
We identify and elaborate some critical factors and mechanisms that foster the emergence of cooperative behavioral patterns. Through institutionalization, which solves social dilemmas through habituation, these factors and mechanisms provide the foundation of contingent cooperation and contextual trust in specific interaction ‘arenas’ and ‘meso’-sized ‘platforms’ (and related carrier groups) in these. This, then, may in turn support the emergence…
Fairness, Transparency, and Conflict-of-Interest Policies
Editorial Team February 2014According to the AEA standards adopted in 2012,“(1) [e]very submitted article should state the sources of financial support for the particular research it describes. If
Social Economics and Evolutionary Institutionalism Today
This paper discusses theoretical and methodological elements that constitute social economics. It also considers those elements for evolutionary (Veblenian) institutional economics. It investigates how these “heterodoxies” may further converge. Such convergence would probably not trigger a complete unification, but lead to a broadly defined common research program and a strategy for joint “heterodox” survival, in face of the ranking game of the n…
Forum for Social Economics The “Contemporary Phase of Capitalism” Issue #3-2014
Strukturwandel und Wirtschaftspolitik in der Region
Forum Best-Paper Award
Dear Reader, The Forum Editorial Board and Team will resume selecting a paper each year from the Forum for the Forum Best-Paper Award. The award is sponsored by Taylor & Francis (as it was by Sprin
The Methodology and Economics Reform Issue, plus a Symposium on “Smith (Vernon) on Smith (Adam)”
The Development, Equity, Diversity, and Justice Issue
Dear Forum reader, The present Forum issue is another focused issue, a “reader”, if you like, on new perspectives on, and new initiatives for, socio-economic development, in a world that has been s
Economic Development, State, Policy, and Social Well-Being – Welcoming the Forum' s Double Issue 2–3/2012
The present double issue of the 41st volume of the Forum for Social Economics provides a quite consistent set of topical policy-oriented papers, grouped into three sub-themes with the following pap
The assessment of economics journals in Italy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the system of assessment of economics journals in Italy, with particular attention to its implications for the development of a heterodox approach in economics. Design/methodology/approach The paper sketches the most important aspects of the Italian system of assessment of economics journals. Findings By employing the available sources of information, the main features of Italian periodical literatu…
Ranking and the prospects of heterodox economics in Greece
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the past experience of ranking of journals and Economics departments in Greece. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a critical assessment of rankings on heterodox economists in Greece. Findings Modeled after the Anglo‐American patterns, albeit unofficial, ranking had a detrimental impact on heterodox economics in terms of hiring and promotion, and of the subject content of academic progra…
Barriers to entry
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically ascertain whether an ideological barrier to entry exists, preventing heterodox economists from publishing in mainstream journals. Design/methodology/approach The empirical results were obtained from a questionnaire asked of heterodox economists. The ten questions include where respondents submitted their research; their treatment by editors and referees; and whether an ideological barrier to pub…
Moral rights and wrongs of research funding
Purpose The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of being vigilant in the implications of all indicators of research output, quality and impact that are used in research assessment exercises. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines links between Australia's competitive and contract research funding arrangements, moral rights clauses and some implications for particular disciplines and areas of research, including heterodox ec…
Heterodox economics and the future of academic publishing
Purpose This paper aims to examine the role that academic publishers have historically played and how this is being undermined by the revolution in information and communications technology. A central issue here is that of copyright. Although authors need to be protected against plagiarists, the main role of publishers' control over copyright is to generate profits for the publisher by limiting access. Design/methodology/approach The paper explor…
Submission from the Association for Heterodox Economics to the international benchmarking review on research assessment
Purpose This paper aims to make a submission to the UK's Economic and Social Research Council as part of its international benchmarking review of economics. Design/methodology/approach The approach takes the form of a discussion of the health of economics in the UK from the perspective of heterodox or pluralist economists who are members of the Association for Heterodox Economics. Findings Research assessment based on peer review is damaging econ…
Publishing, ranking, and the future of heterodox economics
Purpose The purpose of the “Introduction” is to provide the motivation and context for the articles of this special issue and an overview and summary of the contributions that follow. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides an overview and summary of the contributions in the special issue. Findings It is argued that heterodoxies had gained a considerable and growing influence on research orientations, methodologies, and critical reflection…
A case for ranking heterodox journals and departments
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present, for the first time, a case for ranking heterodox journals and departments. Design/methodology/approach The first section of the article briefly delineates the intellectual and social organization of heterodox economics as a social system of scientific activity. This background is then used to argue the case for ranking heterodox journals (section two) and heterodox departments (section three). An e…
Journals as constituents of scientific discourse
Purpose This paper aims to provide a view and analysis of the immediate field of journals that surround a number of key heterodox economics journals. Design/methodology/approach Using citation data from the Science and Social Science Citation Index, the individual and collective networks of a number of journals in this field are analyzed. Findings The size and shape of the citation networks of journals can differ substantially, even if in a broad…
Growth and Development of China
The aim of the paper is twofold: 1. to examine the identities and differences of the Chinese model of the developmental and entrepreneurial state ‘with Chinese characteristics’ with the general East Asian developmental state model, and 2. to derive some perspectives for the future of the particular Chinese model of the developmental state. The paper is structured as follows. The first main section briefly discusses China’s growth performance and …
Heterodox economics and dissemination of research through the internet
Purpose This paper seeks to study how the democratization of the diffusion of research through the internet could have helped non‐traditional fields of research. Design/methodology/approach The specific case the authors approach is heterodox economics as its pre‐prints are disseminated through NEP, the e‐mail alert service of RePEc. Findings Comparing heterodox and mainstream papers, the authors find that the heterodox are quite systematically mo…
Journal citation among heterodox economists 1995‐2007
Purpose This study aims to investigate the pattern among 17 heterodox economic journals over a prolonged period to provide evidence about the social dynamics among the group of researchers who publish in them and the extent to which they hold or develop a collective identity as heterodox economists. Design/methodology/approach Traditional approaches to citation analysis are extended by the use of techniques from social network analysis. In additi…
News from down under
Purpose This brief paper seeks to identify three potential threats to the future of heterodox economics in Australia. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a case study of three potential threats to the future of heterodox economics in Australia. Findings The first comes from funding uncertainties, given the fiscal conservatism of the new federal government. The second emanates from attempts by the élite “group of eight” institutions to …
Why Meso? On “Aggregation” and “Emergence”, and Why and How the Meso Level is Essential in Social Economics
Simplistic aggregation in idealized “markets” versus structural emergence in complex and path-dependent processes have always marked a “continental divide” between neoclassical mainstream economics and all kinds of evolutionary and institutional social economics. This paper deals with institutional, or structural, emergence and argues that the meso level (to be specific) is the proper aggregate level for social economic analyses of complex system…
From Emergent Cooperation to Contextual Trust, and to General Trust
We identify and elaborate some critical factors and mechanisms that foster the emergence of cooperative behavioral patterns. Through institutionalization, which solves social dilemmas through habituation, these factors and mechanisms provide the foundation of contingent cooperation and contextual trust in specific interaction ‘arenas’ and ‘meso’-sized ‘platforms’ (and related carrier groups) in these. This, then, may in turn support the emergence…
Ranking and the prospects of heterodox economics in Greece
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the past experience of ranking of journals and Economics departments in Greece. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a critical assessment of rankings on heterodox economists in Greece. Findings Modeled after the Anglo‐American patterns, albeit unofficial, ranking had a detrimental impact on heterodox economics in terms of hiring and promotion, and of the subject content of academic progra…
Heterodox economics and the future of academic publishing
Purpose This paper aims to examine the role that academic publishers have historically played and how this is being undermined by the revolution in information and communications technology. A central issue here is that of copyright. Although authors need to be protected against plagiarists, the main role of publishers' control over copyright is to generate profits for the publisher by limiting access. Design/methodology/approach The paper explor…
Real-World Economics Today
More realistic economics has to start out from the most basic socio-economic phenomena and processes, i.e. dilemma-prone interdependencies and strong uncertainty among agents that have become ubiquitous phenomena in the world today. In the reality of the “new” economy these are represented by functional and spatial fragmentation of value-added chains, global de-regulation and disembedding of the most powerful economic agents, on one hand, and inc…
Welcome to the History of Thought Issue of the Forum , 1-2016
Dear Reader,General news from the ForumThere was another successful Editorial Board meeting together with ASE officers and representatives of the publisher Taylor and Francis at the ASSA conference
Social Economics and Evolutionary Institutionalism Today
This paper discusses theoretical and methodological elements that constitute social economics. It also considers those elements for evolutionary (Veblenian) institutional economics. It investigates how these “heterodoxies” may further converge. Such convergence would probably not trigger a complete unification, but lead to a broadly defined common research program and a strategy for joint “heterodox” survival, in face of the ranking game of the n…
Barriers to entry
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically ascertain whether an ideological barrier to entry exists, preventing heterodox economists from publishing in mainstream journals. Design/methodology/approach The empirical results were obtained from a questionnaire asked of heterodox economists. The ten questions include where respondents submitted their research; their treatment by editors and referees; and whether an ideological barrier to pub…
Submission from the Association for Heterodox Economics to the international benchmarking review on research assessment
Purpose This paper aims to make a submission to the UK's Economic and Social Research Council as part of its international benchmarking review of economics. Design/methodology/approach The approach takes the form of a discussion of the health of economics in the UK from the perspective of heterodox or pluralist economists who are members of the Association for Heterodox Economics. Findings Research assessment based on peer review is damaging econ…
Can the principles of heterodox political economy explain its own re‐emergence and development
Purpose This paper seeks to evaluate how some of the core general principles of heterodox political economy (HPE) can be applied to the issue of how HPE has managed to undergo resurgence and development over recent decades. Design/methodology/approach Four major principles of heterodoxy are applied successively to this issue: historical specificity; contradiction; heterogeneous agents and groups; and circular and cumulative causation. Findings Th…
On constructing and implementing an extended goal variable for economic policy
Strukturwandel und Wirtschaftspolitik in der Region
Strukturwandel und Wirtschaftspolitik in der Region
Ökonomie in gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung. Sozialökonomik und Gesellschaftsreform heute. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Siegfried Katterle.
Im Mai 1998 begeht Siegfried Katterle - einer der nicht sehr zahlreichen deutschen Nationalökonomen, die noch in der Tradition der deutschen Sozialökonomik stehen - seinen 65. Geburtstag. Katterle, engagierter Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, bekennender Christ und sozialer Demokrat, Sozial- und Wirtschaftsethiker, arbeitnehmer- und strukturpolitisch orientierter Forscher und Sozialreformer war von 1974-1995 Inhaber eines Lehrstuhls für Vo…
Real-World Economics Today
More realistic economics has to start out from the most basic socio-economic phenomena and processes, i.e. dilemma-prone interdependencies and strong uncertainty among agents that have become ubiquitous phenomena in the world today. In the reality of the “new” economy these are represented by functional and spatial fragmentation of value-added chains, global de-regulation and disembedding of the most powerful economic agents, on one hand, and inc…
Social Costs and Public Action in Modern Capitalism
Why Meso? On “Aggregation” and “Emergence”, and Why and How the Meso Level is Essential in Social Economics
Simplistic aggregation in idealized “markets” versus structural emergence in complex and path-dependent processes have always marked a “continental divide” between neoclassical mainstream economics and all kinds of evolutionary and institutional social economics. This paper deals with institutional, or structural, emergence and argues that the meso level (to be specific) is the proper aggregate level for social economic analyses of complex system…
The assessment of economics journals in Italy
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to outline the system of assessment of economics journals in Italy, with particular attention to its implications for the development of a heterodox approach in economics. Design/methodology/approach The paper sketches the most important aspects of the Italian system of assessment of economics journals. Findings By employing the available sources of information, the main features of Italian periodical literatu…
Ranking and the prospects of heterodox economics in Greece
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the past experience of ranking of journals and Economics departments in Greece. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a critical assessment of rankings on heterodox economists in Greece. Findings Modeled after the Anglo‐American patterns, albeit unofficial, ranking had a detrimental impact on heterodox economics in terms of hiring and promotion, and of the subject content of academic progra…
Barriers to entry
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically ascertain whether an ideological barrier to entry exists, preventing heterodox economists from publishing in mainstream journals. Design/methodology/approach The empirical results were obtained from a questionnaire asked of heterodox economists. The ten questions include where respondents submitted their research; their treatment by editors and referees; and whether an ideological barrier to pub…
Moral rights and wrongs of research funding
Purpose The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of being vigilant in the implications of all indicators of research output, quality and impact that are used in research assessment exercises. Design/methodology/approach The paper examines links between Australia's competitive and contract research funding arrangements, moral rights clauses and some implications for particular disciplines and areas of research, including heterodox ec…
Heterodox economics and the future of academic publishing
Purpose This paper aims to examine the role that academic publishers have historically played and how this is being undermined by the revolution in information and communications technology. A central issue here is that of copyright. Although authors need to be protected against plagiarists, the main role of publishers' control over copyright is to generate profits for the publisher by limiting access. Design/methodology/approach The paper explor…
Submission from the Association for Heterodox Economics to the international benchmarking review on research assessment
Purpose This paper aims to make a submission to the UK's Economic and Social Research Council as part of its international benchmarking review of economics. Design/methodology/approach The approach takes the form of a discussion of the health of economics in the UK from the perspective of heterodox or pluralist economists who are members of the Association for Heterodox Economics. Findings Research assessment based on peer review is damaging econ…
A case for ranking heterodox journals and departments
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present, for the first time, a case for ranking heterodox journals and departments. Design/methodology/approach The first section of the article briefly delineates the intellectual and social organization of heterodox economics as a social system of scientific activity. This background is then used to argue the case for ranking heterodox journals (section two) and heterodox departments (section three). An e…
Heterodox economics and dissemination of research through the internet
Purpose This paper seeks to study how the democratization of the diffusion of research through the internet could have helped non‐traditional fields of research. Design/methodology/approach The specific case the authors approach is heterodox economics as its pre‐prints are disseminated through NEP, the e‐mail alert service of RePEc. Findings Comparing heterodox and mainstream papers, the authors find that the heterodox are quite systematically mo…
Journal citation among heterodox economists 1995‐2007
Purpose This study aims to investigate the pattern among 17 heterodox economic journals over a prolonged period to provide evidence about the social dynamics among the group of researchers who publish in them and the extent to which they hold or develop a collective identity as heterodox economists. Design/methodology/approach Traditional approaches to citation analysis are extended by the use of techniques from social network analysis. In additi…
Publishing, ranking, and the future of heterodox economics
Purpose The purpose of the “Introduction” is to provide the motivation and context for the articles of this special issue and an overview and summary of the contributions that follow. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides an overview and summary of the contributions in the special issue. Findings It is argued that heterodoxies had gained a considerable and growing influence on research orientations, methodologies, and critical reflection…
News from down under
Purpose This brief paper seeks to identify three potential threats to the future of heterodox economics in Australia. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a case study of three potential threats to the future of heterodox economics in Australia. Findings The first comes from funding uncertainties, given the fiscal conservatism of the new federal government. The second emanates from attempts by the élite “group of eight” institutions to …
Journals as constituents of scientific discourse
Purpose This paper aims to provide a view and analysis of the immediate field of journals that surround a number of key heterodox economics journals. Design/methodology/approach Using citation data from the Science and Social Science Citation Index, the individual and collective networks of a number of journals in this field are analyzed. Findings The size and shape of the citation networks of journals can differ substantially, even if in a broad…
Can the principles of heterodox political economy explain its own re‐emergence and development
Purpose This paper seeks to evaluate how some of the core general principles of heterodox political economy (HPE) can be applied to the issue of how HPE has managed to undergo resurgence and development over recent decades. Design/methodology/approach Four major principles of heterodoxy are applied successively to this issue: historical specificity; contradiction; heterogeneous agents and groups; and circular and cumulative causation. Findings Th…
Economic Development, State, Policy, and Social Well-Being – Welcoming the Forum' s Double Issue 2–3/2012
The present double issue of the 41st volume of the Forum for Social Economics provides a quite consistent set of topical policy-oriented papers, grouped into three sub-themes with the following pap
Strukturwandel und Wirtschaftspolitik in der Region
Forum Best-Paper Award
Dear Reader, The Forum Editorial Board and Team will resume selecting a paper each year from the Forum for the Forum Best-Paper Award. The award is sponsored by Taylor & Francis (as it was by Sprin
The Methodology and Economics Reform Issue, plus a Symposium on “Smith (Vernon) on Smith (Adam)”
The Development, Equity, Diversity, and Justice Issue
Dear Forum reader, The present Forum issue is another focused issue, a “reader”, if you like, on new perspectives on, and new initiatives for, socio-economic development, in a world that has been s
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