Jürgen Backhaus
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 536042 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jürgen Backhaus |
| PRENOMES | Jürgen |
| SOBRENOME | Backhaus |
| ASSINATURA | BACKHAUS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4807-0035 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 114 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Future directions for sustainable consumption research and action
This article identifies ten priorities for future sustainable consumption research and action, prioritising questions of (in)justice. It emerged from a series of interdisciplinary exchanges between sustainable consumption scholars from across Europe, reflecting their expert perspectives and research practices.
From trial runs to tough times
Living Labs have emerged in the 2000s as experimental settings where diverse actors collectively produce knowledge on transforming aspects of everyday life, including everyday practices. However, Living Labs are often short term, and research on their lasting effects is limited. This article investigates how participation in Living Labs focusing on sustainable heating and laundry practices contributed to the development of household resilience, w…
Ein Beispiel für die kontextsensitive Methodenwahl im Format Reallabor. AG Formate, Methoden und Kontexte der Gesellschaft für transdisziplinäre und partizipative Forschung e.V. (GTPF)
Paving the road to sustainability and democracy? The promises and perils of living labs
The influence of disruptive events on energy-related household practices
Living Lab
In this article, Backhaus et al. shed light on the background, debate and criticism as well as current forms of implementation of Living Labs in higher education. Multiple projects in Germany and the EU help to demonstrate that educational Living Labs can fulfill the triple role of enabling research and education while at the same time advancing the sustainability transformation of higher education institutions and their local or regional surroun…
Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning
e German term Hochschulbildung refers to teaching and learning at a broad range of research and art institutions in tertiary education.Within this sector, Hochschulbildung builds bridges between professional and social e forts on the one hand and scientific endeavours on the other.Its manifestations are shaped by social, cultural, ecological, economic, and political dynamics (e.g.internationalisation and globalization).However, it is itself also …
Challenging social norms to recraft practices
ENERGISE is the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted a ‘living lab’ approach informed by social practice theory. Two challenges were introduced to 306 households in eight countries: to lower indoor temperatures and to reduce laundry cycles. This contribution demonstrates the usefulness of a practice-centered design that takes habits and routines as an entry point for understandi…
Realizing the Basic Income
Current social innovation initiatives towards societal transformations bring forward new ways of doing and organizing, but new ways of knowing as well. Their efforts towards realizing those are important sites for the investigation of contemporary tensions of expertise. The promotion of new, transformative ways of knowing typically involves a large bandwidth of claims to expertise. The attendant contestation is unfolded through the exemplar case …
The First Socialization Debate (1918) and Early Efforts Towards Socialization
Narratives of change
Alongside current policy discourses on the transformative potentials of social innovation, social innovation initiatives also construct their own accounts of how society can be transformed and by whom. Building on state-of-the-art futures studies and narrative research and their linkages, this article unfolds these narratives of change (NoC) by social innovation initiatives. A tripartite framework is used to analyse and discuss the content, const…
Designing Real-World Laboratories for the Reduction of Residential Energy Use
Real-world laboratories (RwLs) hold potential for transdisciplinary research that considers the context of changing households’ energy practices. Taking into account stakeholders’ understandings of what would work where, how and why helps to recognize the contextual conditions for the transferability of RwL results.Reducing residential energy use and carbon dioxide emissions is a policy concern across Europe. One of the approaches to address this…
Dimensionen des Wettbewerbs
Wettbewerb ist ein zentrales Gestaltungsmittel freiheitlicher Gesellschaften, um im Rahmen des Marktes die Disposition über knappe Ressourcen zu steuern. Zunehmend kommt er jedoch auch außerhalb der ökonomischen Sphäre zum Einsatz. Vorreiter ist hier die Europäische Union, in der die supranationalen Freiheitsgarantien nicht nur zu einem Wettbewerb der Produktionsstandorte, sondern auch zu einem Wettbewerb der politischen und kollektiv-vertraglich…
New publications in fiscal sociology
Bismarck and the social question
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the work of Bismarck in relation to social legislation. Design/methodology/approach Bismarck's points of views are sketched mainly through quotations from his speeches in Parliament. His position regarding social protection is discussed and a brief evaluation of his policy is presented. Findings Germany, through the work of Bismarck, was the first country where the state organised a modern social‐se…
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
The intellectual foundations of the social market economy
Purpose This paper suggests that an adequate understanding of the notion of the social market economy, which has become a prominent aspect of debates on the social model of the European Constitution, is to be assessed in the context of the historist tradition in German economic and social thought. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores the intellectual history of the notion of the social market economy and its conceptual relevance for a d…
Long‐term views of the “social question” in Germany during the 19th and 20th century
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on links between former “Heilbronn Symposia” on social, economic and political changes, and evolutionary concepts of the nineteenth and early twentieth century to solve the “Social Question” (“S. Qu.”) in Germany. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is based on references to authors of German historical schools, social policy, labor economics and liberal economic policy. The paper supplies a …
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Fiscal Sociology
In discussing the question, Fiscal sociology: What for? we shall first give a short sketch of the history of thought of the field. We will next identify main issues. In discussing the concept of the tax state, we emphasize issues in constitutional public finance. One of the fields in which fiscal sociology has been most important is taxation, and notably income taxation. In citing applications and issues, we identify an entire alphabet of fiscal …
Property, Interest, and Money
Book Review| March 01 2000 Property, Interest, and Money: Unresolved Puzzles in Economics By Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rovohlt, 1996. 544 pp. Jürgen Backhaus Jürgen Backhaus Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 159–160. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-1-159 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citat…
On Sombart
Ladies and Gentlemen, Honored colleagues! May I first introduce myself as a now retired social scientist, who, due to an to an ex-vitation by the Nazis and unsolicited in-vitations by institutions of higher learning in this country, has spent more than half a century in the United States. Much of that time I devoted to what may be called bridge-building between American and German Catholic social thought and movements. Werner Sombart was one of m…
Henry George's Contribution to Modern Environmental Policy
Many natural resources are inefficiently used in advanced western economies. Overuse of common property resources such as air occurs. The assignment of property rights through grandfathering established uses can have disincentive effects as an entry barrier to new industry and allow the continuation of pernicious uses. A Henry George type alternative remedial system of legal and tax treatment is developed. It systematically covers all natural res…
Henry George's Contribution to Modern Environmental Policy
Many natural resources are inefficiently used in advanced western economies Overuse of common property resources such as air occurs The assignment of property rights through grandfathering established uses can have disincentive effects as an entry barrier to new industry and allow the continuation of pernicious uses A Henry George type alternative remedial system of legal and tax treatment is developed It systematically covers all natural resourc…
Financing the Alternative Economy
Narratives of change
Alongside current policy discourses on the transformative potentials of social innovation, social innovation initiatives also construct their own accounts of how society can be transformed and by whom. Building on state-of-the-art futures studies and narrative research and their linkages, this article unfolds these narratives of change (NoC) by social innovation initiatives. A tripartite framework is used to analyse and discuss the content, const…
Challenging social norms to recraft practices
ENERGISE is the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted a ‘living lab’ approach informed by social practice theory. Two challenges were introduced to 306 households in eight countries: to lower indoor temperatures and to reduce laundry cycles. This contribution demonstrates the usefulness of a practice-centered design that takes habits and routines as an entry point for understandi…
Fiscal Sociology
In discussing the question, Fiscal sociology: What for? we shall first give a short sketch of the history of thought of the field. We will next identify main issues. In discussing the concept of the tax state, we emphasize issues in constitutional public finance. One of the fields in which fiscal sociology has been most important is taxation, and notably income taxation. In citing applications and issues, we identify an entire alphabet of fiscal …
Pareto on public choice
Henry George's Contribution to Modern Environmental Policy
Many natural resources are inefficiently used in advanced western economies. Overuse of common property resources such as air occurs. The assignment of property rights through grandfathering established uses can have disincentive effects as an entry barrier to new industry and allow the continuation of pernicious uses. A Henry George type alternative remedial system of legal and tax treatment is developed. It systematically covers all natural res…
Henry George's Contribution to Modern Environmental Policy
Many natural resources are inefficiently used in advanced western economies Overuse of common property resources such as air occurs The assignment of property rights through grandfathering established uses can have disincentive effects as an entry barrier to new industry and allow the continuation of pernicious uses A Henry George type alternative remedial system of legal and tax treatment is developed It systematically covers all natural resourc…
The influence of disruptive events on energy-related household practices
Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning
e German term Hochschulbildung refers to teaching and learning at a broad range of research and art institutions in tertiary education.Within this sector, Hochschulbildung builds bridges between professional and social e forts on the one hand and scientific endeavours on the other.Its manifestations are shaped by social, cultural, ecological, economic, and political dynamics (e.g.internationalisation and globalization).However, it is itself also …
The Pareto Principle
The purpose of the paper is a discussion of the meaning and relevance of the Pareto principle in economics. To begin with, the principle is briefly retraced in Pareto’s own writings. Its contemporary meaning was, however, developed in the context of the “New Welfare Economics”. While Pareto technically employed the principle in order to describe an equilibrium situation, Kaldor and Hicks developed it somewhat differently as a yardstick for econom…
Pareto on public choice
Ökonomik der partizipativen Unternehmung I
Unrevised ebook edition 2025
The Pareto Principle
The purpose of the paper is a discussion of the meaning and relevance of the Pareto principle in economics. To begin with, the principle is briefly retraced in Pareto’s own writings. Its contemporary meaning was, however, developed in the context of the “New Welfare Economics”. While Pareto technically employed the principle in order to describe an equilibrium situation, Kaldor and Hicks developed it somewhat differently as a yardstick for econom…
Diskussion/Discussion. The Pareto Principle and Policy Analysis
Warren Samuels has suggested that the Pareto Principle, when being used in policy analysis, is (1) limited, (2) selective, and (3) displays a conservative bias. In contrast to this view, in this note it is argued that the Pareto Principle is much less limited than was initially perceived (e.g. by Pareto himself) or is generally believed to be the case, that it tends to emphasize inclusiveness instead of selectivity, and that it is more likely to …
Financing the Alternative Economy
Henry George's Contribution to Modern Environmental Policy
Many natural resources are inefficiently used in advanced western economies Overuse of common property resources such as air occurs The assignment of property rights through grandfathering established uses can have disincentive effects as an entry barrier to new industry and allow the continuation of pernicious uses A Henry George type alternative remedial system of legal and tax treatment is developed It systematically covers all natural resourc…
Henry George's Contribution to Modern Environmental Policy
Many natural resources are inefficiently used in advanced western economies. Overuse of common property resources such as air occurs. The assignment of property rights through grandfathering established uses can have disincentive effects as an entry barrier to new industry and allow the continuation of pernicious uses. A Henry George type alternative remedial system of legal and tax treatment is developed. It systematically covers all natural res…
On Sombart
Ladies and Gentlemen, Honored colleagues! May I first introduce myself as a now retired social scientist, who, due to an to an ex-vitation by the Nazis and unsolicited in-vitations by institutions of higher learning in this country, has spent more than half a century in the United States. Much of that time I devoted to what may be called bridge-building between American and German Catholic social thought and movements. Werner Sombart was one of m…
Property, Interest, and Money
Book Review| March 01 2000 Property, Interest, and Money: Unresolved Puzzles in Economics By Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rovohlt, 1996. 544 pp. Jürgen Backhaus Jürgen Backhaus Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2000) 32 (1): 159–160. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-32-1-159 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citat…
Fiscal Sociology
In discussing the question, Fiscal sociology: What for? we shall first give a short sketch of the history of thought of the field. We will next identify main issues. In discussing the concept of the tax state, we emphasize issues in constitutional public finance. One of the fields in which fiscal sociology has been most important is taxation, and notably income taxation. In citing applications and issues, we identify an entire alphabet of fiscal …
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Bismarck and the social question
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the work of Bismarck in relation to social legislation. Design/methodology/approach Bismarck's points of views are sketched mainly through quotations from his speeches in Parliament. His position regarding social protection is discussed and a brief evaluation of his policy is presented. Findings Germany, through the work of Bismarck, was the first country where the state organised a modern social‐se…
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
The intellectual foundations of the social market economy
Purpose This paper suggests that an adequate understanding of the notion of the social market economy, which has become a prominent aspect of debates on the social model of the European Constitution, is to be assessed in the context of the historist tradition in German economic and social thought. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores the intellectual history of the notion of the social market economy and its conceptual relevance for a d…
Long‐term views of the “social question” in Germany during the 19th and 20th century
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on links between former “Heilbronn Symposia” on social, economic and political changes, and evolutionary concepts of the nineteenth and early twentieth century to solve the “Social Question” (“S. Qu.”) in Germany. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is based on references to authors of German historical schools, social policy, labor economics and liberal economic policy. The paper supplies a …
New publications in fiscal sociology
Dimensionen des Wettbewerbs
Wettbewerb ist ein zentrales Gestaltungsmittel freiheitlicher Gesellschaften, um im Rahmen des Marktes die Disposition über knappe Ressourcen zu steuern. Zunehmend kommt er jedoch auch außerhalb der ökonomischen Sphäre zum Einsatz. Vorreiter ist hier die Europäische Union, in der die supranationalen Freiheitsgarantien nicht nur zu einem Wettbewerb der Produktionsstandorte, sondern auch zu einem Wettbewerb der politischen und kollektiv-vertraglich…
Designing Real-World Laboratories for the Reduction of Residential Energy Use
Real-world laboratories (RwLs) hold potential for transdisciplinary research that considers the context of changing households’ energy practices. Taking into account stakeholders’ understandings of what would work where, how and why helps to recognize the contextual conditions for the transferability of RwL results.Reducing residential energy use and carbon dioxide emissions is a policy concern across Europe. One of the approaches to address this…
The First Socialization Debate (1918) and Early Efforts Towards Socialization
Narratives of change
Alongside current policy discourses on the transformative potentials of social innovation, social innovation initiatives also construct their own accounts of how society can be transformed and by whom. Building on state-of-the-art futures studies and narrative research and their linkages, this article unfolds these narratives of change (NoC) by social innovation initiatives. A tripartite framework is used to analyse and discuss the content, const…
Realizing the Basic Income
Current social innovation initiatives towards societal transformations bring forward new ways of doing and organizing, but new ways of knowing as well. Their efforts towards realizing those are important sites for the investigation of contemporary tensions of expertise. The promotion of new, transformative ways of knowing typically involves a large bandwidth of claims to expertise. The attendant contestation is unfolded through the exemplar case …
Challenging social norms to recraft practices
ENERGISE is the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted a ‘living lab’ approach informed by social practice theory. Two challenges were introduced to 306 households in eight countries: to lower indoor temperatures and to reduce laundry cycles. This contribution demonstrates the usefulness of a practice-centered design that takes habits and routines as an entry point for understandi…
Living Lab
In this article, Backhaus et al. shed light on the background, debate and criticism as well as current forms of implementation of Living Labs in higher education. Multiple projects in Germany and the EU help to demonstrate that educational Living Labs can fulfill the triple role of enabling research and education while at the same time advancing the sustainability transformation of higher education institutions and their local or regional surroun…
Handbook Transdisciplinary Learning
e German term Hochschulbildung refers to teaching and learning at a broad range of research and art institutions in tertiary education.Within this sector, Hochschulbildung builds bridges between professional and social e forts on the one hand and scientific endeavours on the other.Its manifestations are shaped by social, cultural, ecological, economic, and political dynamics (e.g.internationalisation and globalization).However, it is itself also …
The influence of disruptive events on energy-related household practices
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