Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental
sustainability from a historical perspective, this book provides a cohesive and cogent …

Better known as a poet and dramatist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) was also
a learned philosopher and natural scientist. Astrida Orle Tantillo offers the first …

This paper examines the relationships betweenGoethe's morphology and his ideas on
aestheticappraisal. Goethe's science of morphology was toprovide the method for making …

The power of accounting has been explained in terms of its technical efficacity in depicting
economic reality. This paper examines the significance of accounting for the nineteenth …

Already in the nineteenth century, German-language writers were contending with the
challenge of imagining and accounting for a planet whose volatility bore little resemblance …

If one revisits the early years of History of Political Economy, one cannot help but be struck
with the impression that the field was already very much on the retreat. Kenneth Boulding …

This paper argues that Goethe's collections, in particular his mineralogical collections, had
both public and private purposes. The public purposes were closely tied to the tradition of …

While the history of early modern science is well-charted terrain, far less has been recorded
on economic thinking of the same period and considerably less that addresses the …

STRATEGY David N. Livingstone his exploration takes as its starting-point a remark by
George Steiner in his arrest-ing volume Real presences. Here he argues that any mature …

We argue that the economy of nature constitutes an invocation of structure in the biological
sciences, one largely missed by philosophers of biology despite the turn in recent years …