The Rationality Hypothesis: Help or Hindrance?

First paragraph: The assumption of rational decision-making, the maximising or optimising homo oeconomicus, belongs to the fundamental elements of the neoclassical mainstream. It is also an element that has been hotly attacked and defended for a long time without a convincing victory for one side or the other. The following considerations – though none of them is completely new – should help to show why such a one-sided victory is neither likely nor desirable

Roots – Reflections on Josef Steindl’s First Article in an Economic Journal

In this article the late Kurt Rothschild comments on Joseph Steindl’s first paper on economic topics, published in the Austrian “Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie” in 1937. The article is a posthumous publication (with minor editorial corrections) of a manuscript presented by the author in September of 1987 at the “Finance, Technical Change and Market Forms in the Accumulation Process” conference organised by the University of Trieste

"Der Heiligenschein ist angekratzt, aber der Neoliberalismus ist noch immer sehr stark". Interview mit Prof. Kurt W. Rothschild

Erster Absatz: Wo und wann haben Sie Ökonomie studiert, und wer waren Ihre persönlichen Vorbilder und Mentoren