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Feministische Ökonomie: Antworten auf die herrschenden Wirtschaftswissenschaften?
Get PDFKatharina Mader, Jana Schultheiss: Feminist Economics – Challenging MainstreamEconomics? The prevailing assumption that economics is inherently gender-neutral is notalways explicitly formulated, but is tacitly assumed. Economics does not only conceal thecategory of gender, both in its biological and social understanding, but also gender relations andthe corresponding power, domination and inequalities. However, economic theories are notgender-neutral, but based on androcentric values and world views. The examination herewithis an object of feminist economics. Gender-blind economics systematically underestimatesthe contributions of women to the economy. In particular, the entire area of unpaid work,social cohesion and interpersonal responsibility remains invisible, with no broader publicappreciation and no adequate attention within economic theory and economic policy. Thepaper contains an overview of the state of feminist economics, given its pluralistic characteristicsand common assumptions. It reflects upon the extent to which feminist economicscan provide answers and alternatives to the central points of criticism of orthodox economicsand its political implicationsKatharina Mader, Jana Schultheiss: Feminist Economics – Challenging MainstreamEconomics? The prevailing assumption that economics is inherently gender-neutral is notalways explicitly formulated, but is tacitly assumed. Economics does not only conceal thecategory of gender, both in its biological and social understanding, but also gender relations andthe corresponding power, domination and inequalities. However, economic theories are notgender-neutral, but based on androcentric values and world views. The examination herewithis an object of feminist economics. Gender-blind economics systematically underestimatesthe contributions of women to the economy. In particular, the entire area of unpaid work,social cohesion and interpersonal responsibility remains invisible, with no broader publicappreciation and no adequate attention within economic theory and economic policy. Thepaper contains an overview of the state of feminist economics, given its pluralistic characteristicsand common assumptions. It reflects upon the extent to which feminist economicscan provide answers and alternatives to the central points of criticism of orthodox economicsand its political implication
Institutionelle Verstetigung von paradigmatischer Ausrichtung: Das Beispiel Sachverständigenrat
Get PDFA central criticism of economics is that there exists a determinate, relatively monolithic approach: mainstream economics. A representative example is the „German Council of Economic Experts“ (Expert Councilfor the Assessment of the Macroeconomic Development, Sachverständigenrat, SVR) withfour mainstream members plus one dissenter, a „4 :1“ quota with institutionalized minorityrecognition. In this article we ask from a sociological and especially from a performative pointof view whether this quota will be reflected in the annual reports of SVR and whether it canbe found in structures in the scientific field as well, especially in textbooks and in appointmentpractices of its members.is that there exists a determinate, relatively monolithic approach: mainstream economics.A representative example is the „German Council of Economic Experts“ (Expert Councilfor the Assessment of the Macroeconomic Development, Sachverständigenrat, SVR) withfour mainstream members plus one dissenter, a „4 :1“ quota with institutionalized minorityrecognition. In this article we ask from a sociological and especially from a performative pointof view whether this quota will be reflected in the annual reports of SVR and whether it canbe found in structures in the scientific field as well, especially in textbooks and in appointmentpractices of its members
Totalität und Vielfalt – gesellschaftliche Wirklichkeit als multidimensionaler Zusammenhang
Get PDFThis article proposes a productive connection between the Marxian analysis of the structures of capitalism and the analytic attentiveness to the heterogeneity and instability of power relations and identities proposed by Judith Butler and Michel Foucault. Focusing on the question of gender relations it argues that social theory and critique face the challenge of taking simultaneously into account the totality of the capitalist mode of production and the fragmentation and complex situatedness of power relations and individual existences
Der entropische Marx: Eine Bitte an den Marxismus, die Entropie-Kirche im thermodynamischen Dorf zu lassen
Get PDFThe essay critically engages with the debate on the numerous approaches that seek to connect Marxian theory with thermodynamics/entropy. Starting from the analyses of Podolinsky’s energetics published in the 19th century I will go into its rediscovery in the ecological discourse of the 20th century – basically by Martinez- Alier - and the reaction of Burkett/Foster. The essay will conclude with a critique of Elmar Altvater’s attempts to connect Marxian value theory and entropy
Gesellschaftliche Militarisierung: Die Bundeswehr und ihr Einsatz im eigenen Hinterland
Get PDFThe article sketches an extended concept of militarization, which enables us to group together different activities of the German army (Bundeswehr) in the interior: Propaganda in public schools, image campaigns in conventional and internet media for kids, recruitment events in public employment offices and shows at job fairs, public military rituals, exercises for state of emergency and disaster operations, and the setup of institutional structures of so called civil-military co-operation. A short overview of military opposing organizations and their different practical experiences mirrors the range of the Bundeswehr\u27s activities
Die Bundeswehr als „modernes“ Wirtschaftsunternehmen
Get PDFThe German Army is in a process of transformation for about two decades now, these concerning mainly two processes: first, the transformation from a Cold War land-defence army to an intervention army deployed worldwide; second, the outsourcing of many formerly state-army-owned services to the private sector via different forms of cooperation. The article argues that the latest ongoing “structural reform” of the German Army enforced by the conservative-liberal government has pushed the door open for the army to become a private corporation by itself
Europe’s next model: Zur Bedeutung von Risikomessmodellen in Finanzmarktlehre, -aufsicht und -industrie
Get PDFVanessa Redak: Europe’s next model: The impact of risk measurement on finance theory,regulatory practice and industry behaviour. The importance of Finance theory and riskmodelling has dramatically increased over the past decades in academic life, banks and thefinance industry, and in regulatory and supervisory bodies. This increase not only nurturedthe somewhat illusory belief that risk is measurable but also changed the lending behaviourof banks and the funding function of financial intermediaries with potential ample effectson the accumulation process.Vanessa Redak: Europe’s next model: The impact of risk measurement on finance theory,regulatory practice and industry behaviour. The importance of Finance theory and riskmodelling has dramatically increased over the past decades in academic life, banks and thefinance industry, and in regulatory and supervisory bodies. This increase not only nurturedthe somewhat illusory belief that risk is measurable but also changed the lending behaviourof banks and the funding function of financial intermediaries with potential ample effectson the accumulation process
Paschukanis versus Bloch – Sozialutopie und Rechtsform
Get PDFBloch and Paschukanis have given a different answer to the question: What is law and what should happen to law in a socialist society? Paschukanis argues against Stalin’s order to create a specific socialist or soviet law and was killed for his dissident approach. He explained the thesis that law is a creation of exchange in capitalist societies, and that therefore socialist law, he declares, is an oxymoron. Forty years later Bloch came to an opposite result: to prevent servility and oppression in “socialist societies” of the eastern world the tradition of human rights should be conserved and developed, i.e. they should reflect the solidarity of the new post capitalist order. This debate is not only of historical interest, but represents a different approach to a theory of law and concerns the relation between social change and law as an instrument of this change
Der ökonomische Determinismus – neu betrachtet
Get PDFThis article revisits the claim that the social relations of production determine, at least in the last instance, the overall nature and dynamic of social formations. The claim in its original form is often misunderstood, its later justifications are generally weak, and efforts to improve it are mostly unconvincing. An alternative interpretation is presented that identifies four complementary meanings of economic determinism that are all consistent with historical materialism. The fourth meaning draws on the relatively new concept of ‘ecological dominance’ but it was anticipated, the author argues, in certain arguments of Marx and Engels themselves