Jürgen Georg Backhaus (Ed.)
This e-book examines utopias in classical political economic system and relies at the papers provided by means of prime students on the twenty second Heilbronn Symposium within the Economics and the Social Sciences. The publication specializes in the strain among the country and utopia (the nation as utopia vs. utopia rather than a state). The participants additionally examine the query of even if seafaring and landlocked states visualize the commonwealth otherwise and boost assorted utopias, and it's concluded they don't. the quantity for that reason follows the refutation of the Schumpeterian speculation that extra centred industries stimulate innovation. notwithstanding the speculation is refuted it nonetheless continues to be vital, the chapters argue, since it charts out a complete learn application, serves as a benchmark of sure private and non-private area limitations, and defines the grammar of discourse for constitutional financial coverage in OECD states. those subject matters are explored intimately via contributions by way of economists, philosophers, and social historians.
The individuals study utopias hitherto by no means or hardly reviewed within the English language, making this e-book of curiosity to scholars and students in economics, political technology and the historical past of financial thought
Contents:
Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 Jürgen Georg Backhaus
A Demand-Revealing Utopia ......................................................................... three Nicolaus Tideman
Economic, urban making plans and Environmental Proposals by means of Plato
in town of Atlantis and of the legislation ......................................................... 7 Christos P. Baloglou
Property in a Utopian nation, proficient via Ideas
of Pufendorf and Locke .................................................................................. eleven Nicolaus Tideman
John Stuart Mill and the Utopian culture ............................................... 19 Michael R. Montgomery
The nation as Utopia: a few concepts on Theocracy ................................. 35 Gerrit Meijer
Justi’s Concrete Utopia .................................................................................. forty-one Hartmuth Becker
The country of Ophir – A “Realistic Utopia” .......................................... fifty seven Günther Chaloupek
Is Montaigne a Utopian? .............................................................................. sixty seven Marcel van Meerhaeghe
Labour in Utopian Socialism ........................................................................ seventy seven Hans Frambach
Iambulus’ “Sun State” and T. Campanella’s “Civitas Solis”:
Some Comparative Parallels and hyperlinks of 2 Utopias ............................. 89 Christos P. Baloglou
Developing Society in keeping with Man's improvement ............................... a hundred and fifteen Arno Mong Daastøl and Johannes Michael Hanel
The Utopian aspect within the Formation of Doctrines at the State
in German “Staatswissenschaften” ............................................................... 161 Karl-Heinz Schmidt
Utopia: Johann Peter Süßmilch and the Divine Order ............................... 183 Gerhard Scheuerer
Eugen Dühring and Post-Utopian Socialism ............................................... 191 E. James Gay