Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 29 Issue 4/5

Herrn Eugen Dühring’s remotion

Wolfgang Drechsler

The essay narrates and analyzes Eugen Dühring’s remotion, i.e. the taking away of his status as Privatdozent, and thereby of his right to teach at a university, by the Prussian…

Dühring’s “socialitarian” model of economic communes and its influence on the development of socialist thought and practice

Alberto Chilosi

This paper considers the influence of Eugen Dühring’s 1876 model of economic communes on the development of a peculiar non‐Marxian stream of market socialist models, characterized…

Do Dühring’s tribulations have any lessons for us today?

Peter R. Senn

This is an article about the possible lessons for academic freedom that Dühring’s expulsion from the University of Berlin might have for us today. It begins with a brief…

Freedom of speech in a constitutional political economy perspective

Jean‐Michel G. Josselin, Alain Marciano

The article examines the issue of free speech in a law and economics perspective. The property rights approach is contrasted with the common law and constitutional standpoints…

Reflections on the Dühring and Brand cases: Political correctness and the current abandonment of academic autonomy to the culture of comfort

John J. Furedy

The concept of “political correctness” (PC) does not have a clear and simple definition on which there is even a majority, let alone universal, consensus. Nevertheless, during the…

Eugen Dühring in the perspective of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Günter Krause

Describes how the work of Eugen Dühring was regarded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It is underlined that the preoccupation of Marx and Engels with Dühring was accorded…