This book champions the view that economics is a social science, and that, moreover, it may serve as a new paradigm for the social sciences. Economics is taken to be part of those sciences which deal with actual problems of society by providing insights, improving our understanding and suggesting solutions. I am aware that the way problems are addressed here has little in common with economics as it is generally understood today; most economists make strong efforts to imitate the exact sciences. Economics tends to become a branch of applied mathematics; the majority of all publications in...

To put the ARTS & ECONOMICS next to each other, as in the title to this book, may be shocking to some readers. Must not creative art be free of economic constraints, must it not lead a life of its own? And is economics not the realm of mean commercial dealings? This book argues that it is not so: the ARTS & ECONOMICS go well together, indeed need each other. Without a sound economic base, art cannot exist, and without creativity the economy cannot flourish. There is a second way in which the Arts and Economics go together, namely in the sense of applying economic thinking to the arts. Over...

Motivated people are crucial to create a sustainable competitive advantage for your company. Successful Management by Motivation shows that in a knowledge-based society, this goal cannot be achieved by extrinsic motivation alone. Pay for performance often even hurts because it crowds out intrinsic motivation like work morale. To succeed, companies have to find ways of fostering and sustaining intrinsic motivation. With the help of in-depth case studies, representative surveys, and analyses based on a large number of firms and employees, this joint work of business researchers and economists...

Motivated people are crucial to create a sustainable competitive advantage for your company. Successful Management by Motivation shows that in a knowledge-based society, this goal cannot be achieved by extrinsic motivation alone. Pay for performance often even hurts because it crowds out intrinsic motivation like work morale. To succeed, companies have to find ways of fostering and sustaining intrinsic motivation. With the help of in-depth case studies, representative surveys, and analyses based on a large number of firms and employees, this joint work of business researchers and economists...

Leistungsmotivation jenseits des Pay-for-Performance-Konzepts steht im Mittelpunkt dieses Buches. Umfassende Untersuchungen und Fallstudien zeigen geeignete Manahmen. Die 2. Auflage ist aktualisiert und um zahlreiche Aspekte und empirische Befunde erweitert.

This book champions the view that economics is a social science, and that, moreover, it may serve as a new paradigm for the social sciences. Economics is taken to be part of those sciences which deal with actual problems of society by providing insights, improving our understanding and suggesting solutions. I am aware that the way problems are addressed here has little in common with economics as it is generally understood today; most economists make strong efforts to imitate the exact sciences. Economics tends to become a branch of applied mathematics; the majority of all publications in...

Dieses essential beschaftigt sich mit der Frage, was uns Menschen glucklich macht. Bruno S. Frey erlautert Messmethoden, wirtschaftliche Faktoren, soziodemografische Einflusse sowie politische Dimensionen des Glucks. Steigert ein hoheres Einkommen die Zufriedenheit? Wird, wer die Arbeit verliert, unglucklich? Wie wichtig ist die physische und psychische Gesundheit fur die Lebenszufriedenheit? Sind alte oder junge Menschen glucklicher? Braucht es intensive soziale Beziehungen, um glucklich zu werden? Welche Rolle spielen die politischen Bedingungen, wie die Beachtung der Menschenrechte,...