Marcel Mauss wrote in 1924 that he had found in the motifs of the "archaic" gift exchange of pre-modern societies "one of the rocks on which our societies rest" (Mauss, 1990, p.19). Gift practices persist in…
In 2020, the coronavirus had the world fully in its grip, and governments and politicians had to act. The topics that have dominated the discussion include school closures, competition to accelerate vaccine…
A decade ago, the German Advisory Council to the Federal Government on Global Environmental Change (Wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Bundesregierung für Globale Umweltveränderungen–WBGU) published its main report.…
As of the beginning of 2021, the European Commission has restarted the formal process to develop a stable regulatory and tax framework to address the challenges of the digital economy. In 2018, the European…
Economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been an important issue in the public debate. In almost every country, stores and plants were closed and mobility severely restricted in order to contain the…
