Sebastian Berger's Outputs (38)

The megamachine and its social costs (2025)
Book Chapter

This preface discusses the social costs of capitalism as megamachine. The focus is on linking the book's main thesis on capitalist double-entry book keeping as essence of the megamachine with the heterodox economics theory of social costs. The social... Read More about The megamachine and its social costs.

Ernst Wiecherts Verwindung der christlich-kapitalistisch-rationalistischen Metaphysik, oder: mit Pan und Dionysos zum „Ganzen“ als „dunklem Zeugnis“ eines namenlosen Gottes aus Liebe (2024)
Book Chapter

Ernst Wiechert hat sich im Laufe seines Lebens zunehmend von der Metaphysik distanziert und dies auch durch Kritik an ihren christlich-kapitalistisch-rationalistischen Ausprägungen und den damit einhergehenden Phänomenen der Moderne deutlich gemacht... Read More about Ernst Wiecherts Verwindung der christlich-kapitalistisch-rationalistischen Metaphysik, oder: mit Pan und Dionysos zum „Ganzen“ als „dunklem Zeugnis“ eines namenlosen Gottes aus Liebe.

Open systems (2024)
Book Chapter

This is a chapter on "Open Systems" for the Encyclopedia of Evolutionary and Institutional Economics. It describes the history and applications of this concept within economics discourse. The main focus is on the contributions by Kenneth Boulding and... Read More about Open systems.

Karl Polanyi’'s and K. William Kapp’'s arguments on social costs: Is there a common “revolutionary” raison d’'être? (2024)
Journal Article

This article examines Karl Polanyi's and K. William Kapp's social cost proposals to test their suitability for a “revolutionary” Social Ecological Economics that radically breaks with neoclassical and neoliberal paradigms. Whilst some coherence is re... Read More about Karl Polanyi’'s and K. William Kapp’'s arguments on social costs: Is there a common “revolutionary” raison d’'être?.

Profit aus Glaubenmachen - Gewinn aus Dichtung: Wirtschaft als Wahrheitskampf (2023)
Book Chapter

Die Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Moderne befasst sich maßgeblich mit der Frage, was der Markt ist bzw. wie vom Markt zu denken ist. Aus eigener Erfahrung teilen wir hier die Einsicht des Wirtschaftsphilosophen Philip Mirowski (2013), dass die in der H... Read More about Profit aus Glaubenmachen - Gewinn aus Dichtung: Wirtschaft als Wahrheitskampf.

What is heterodox economics? Insights from interviews with leading thinkers (2023)
Journal Article

This article investigates heterodox economics, drawing on data from interviews we conducted with leading economists, using thematic analysis to identify three core concerns of our respondents: realism, power, and pluralism. Heterodox economists appea... Read More about What is heterodox economics? Insights from interviews with leading thinkers.

Principles of Microeconomics: Scarcity vs Social Provisioning (3rd edition) (2023)
Book

The Kapps‘ personal archive - A historiographic research project (2023)
Digital Artefact

Circular cumulative causation (2022)
Book Chapter

Three different strands of Circular Cumulative Causation can be distinguished: 1) Veblen’s “Cumulative causation”; 2) Myrdal’s “Circular Cumulative Causation”, 3) and Young-Kaldor “Cumulative causation”. (Berger 2009)

K. William Kapp (2022)
Book Chapter

August Karl Wilhelm Kapp (*1910 in Königsberg – †1976 Dubrovnik) was born in the cultural and economic capital of East Prussia during the epoch of Imperial Germany. His formative years saw post-WW I revolutions of 1918, territorial separation of East... Read More about K. William Kapp.

Social costs (2022)
Book Chapter

The root concern of American institutionalism is, arguably, the social waste of business enterprise. (Rutherford 2015; Gruchy 1976) In this tradition, the most comprehensive account and theory of social costs is “The Social Costs of Business Enterpri... Read More about Social costs.

Preface - Capital and social costs as outcomes of struggles WITH truth (2021)
Book Chapter

Wiechert und Wirtschaft, oder: Anmerkungen zu Weigelts Buch „Schweigen und Sprache“ (2021)
Journal Article

Re-envisioning economics with substantive meaning: A paradigm shift from economic growth to the good life (2021)
Other

Alternative national accounting: From monetary to social cost accounting (2021)
Digital Artefact

Alternative national accounting: From monetary to social cost accounting (2021)
Digital Artefact

Today the world is facing multiple social and ecological crises, which cause human suffering that could be avoided through changes in accounting systems. Firstly, the accounting of large international firms and its concomitant national growth account... Read More about Alternative national accounting: From monetary to social cost accounting.

Von den Sozialkosten zum "Ganzen", oder: Wege in die Poetische Oekonomie (2021)
Book Chapter

70 Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung von „The Social Costs of Private Enterprise“ (Kapp 1950) geht der vorliegende Artikel im Jahre 2020 der Frage nach, wie sich die Freundschaft zum Dichter Ernst Wiechert auf Kapps Sozialkostentheorie ausgewirkt hat?... Read More about Von den Sozialkosten zum "Ganzen", oder: Wege in die Poetische Oekonomie.

Oekonomie und Offenheit: vom Systemdenken zum Ereignis-Denken (2020)
Book Chapter

Are social costs the outcome of struggles over truth? (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, © 2020, Journal of Economic Issues / Association for Evolutionary Economics. Abstract: This article critically examines the institutional economics theory of social costs by way of reviewing The Dark Places of Business Enterprise: Reinstating... Read More about Are social costs the outcome of struggles over truth?.

Can a poetic economy cure evil?: Lessons from the Kapp-Wiechert correspondance (2020)
Book Chapter

This article deals with the (socio-economic) causes of evil and potential solutions.