Seminar at BI Norwegian Business School 2017: Second Video now Online

Watch it by clicking on the image: Nicolas clarifies the historically specific legal nature of assets & liabilities, using legal anthropology to distinguish reciprocity based mutual obligations of exchanging favours and gifts within a “Gemeinschaft” (as described in Marcel Mauss’ 1925 classic “The Gift” or in Marshall Sahlins 1972 classic essay “On the Sociology of… Continue reading Seminar at BI Norwegian Business School 2017: Second Video now Online

Seminar at BI Norwegian Business School 2017: First Video now Online

On Nov. 01-03, 2017, we held a Seminar at BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo (details here). Our main goals were (1) to present an overview of the current state of our work and get some feedback from the perspective of BI staff and students from different disciplines (Business, Law, Economics, Political Science), and (2) to… Continue reading Seminar at BI Norwegian Business School 2017: First Video now Online

ANEP Seminar at BI Norwegian Business School, Nov. 01-03, 2017: Papers for Download

Information on the seminar, including the programme, can be found here.  Some short introductory presentations of our approach can be found on our youtube channel.  Anyone interested in taking a more detailed look at our approach of constructing a realistic, non-universalist paradigm for analyzing capitalism by reconnecting accounting to the historically specific foundations in roman… Continue reading ANEP Seminar at BI Norwegian Business School, Nov. 01-03, 2017: Papers for Download

New Blog on Stützel’s Mechanics of Balances

On top of Legal Institutionalism, Micro-Macro Accounting and Stützel’s Mechanics of Balances are the second fundamental building block of our approach, as outlined in Thomas Weiss’ presentations at the 2016 YSI Plenary in Budapest (view here) and 2017 WINIR  Conference, “Institutions and Open Societies” (view here). Fabian Lindner is now hosting a new blog in… Continue reading New Blog on Stützel’s Mechanics of Balances

ANEP Economics Seminar at BI Norwegian Business School, Nov. 01-03, 2017

We will be giving a 3-day seminar “Introduction to New European Political Economics and Legal Institutionalism” at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. It will take place from November 1-3, 2017 and feature guest speakers Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfortshire) and Johannes Schmidt.  Geoff Hodgson is the co-developer of Legal Institutionalism, author of the… Continue reading ANEP Economics Seminar at BI Norwegian Business School, Nov. 01-03, 2017

ANEP team at WINIR 2017 “Institutions and Open Societies”

At this week’s WINIR conference on Institutions and Open Societies at Utrecht University, Nicolas Hofer, Wolfgang Theil and Thomas Weiss will present some more material we developed over the past year. Nicolas will summarize some difficulties in building open societies that are are rooted in the contradictory basic legal structure of open societies:  the private/public… Continue reading ANEP team at WINIR 2017 “Institutions and Open Societies”

Intro to New European Political Economics – new youtube playlists

Adding to our own presentations, we created playlists on the most important core pillars of our approach to a new Paradigm (“New European Political Economics”):  Legal Anthropology, Legal Institutionalism, Mechanics of Balances, comparative historical analysis of long cycles of development of the state, western civilization and modern capitalism. To get a flavor of what we… Continue reading Intro to New European Political Economics – new youtube playlists

YSI Plenary Budapest 2016

Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble and the former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, seemed to have never really understood each others views and positions. We are convinced one important reason for this is the lack of a shared paradigm that would be powerful enough to integrate both – seemingly entirely opposite – positions on… Continue reading YSI Plenary Budapest 2016

Why is Money difficult? Comment on Perry Mehrling’s blog (by Wolfgang)

Perry Mehrling has written an excellent blog-entry entitled “Why is money difficult?”  He points out 4 essential obstacles to understanding monetary economies he has encountered again and again in teaching his money and banking course over the years:  (1) the alchemy of banking, (2) the essential hybridity of the monetary system, (3) the inherent hierarchy… Continue reading Why is Money difficult? Comment on Perry Mehrling’s blog (by Wolfgang)

Financialization and Development: our comments on Perry Mehrling’s blog (by Nicolas and Wolfgang)

Perry Mehrling has published a comment on UNCTAD’s 2015 Trade and Development Report, “Making the international financial architecture work for development“. We agree with Mehrling that “the deep suspicion of financial development that is evident throughout the report might rather be considered part of the problem than part of the solution” and, as Mehrling is… Continue reading Financialization and Development: our comments on Perry Mehrling’s blog (by Nicolas and Wolfgang)