https://fuldok.hebis.de/xmlui/handle/fuldok/16 Fri, 01 May 2026 22:51:58 GMT 2026-05-01T22:51:58Z https://fuldok.hebis.de/xmlui/handle/fuldok/809 Komlos, John, Foundations of real-world economics: what every economics student needs to know, 3rd edition, 2023, Routledge, New York and London, 420 pp., £ 39.99 (Paperback) Hillebrand, Rainer Following the global financial crisis in 2007–2008, students in many countries started protesting at the way economics was taught in university classrooms. Their main concerns included the “dominance of narrow free-market theories”; the ignorance of “evidence from other disciplines” (Inman 2014); and the inability of the economics science to explain and predict real-world phenomena, such as the financial meltdown. Not least in response to this, many economics departments have expanded their curricula beyond the traditional neoclassical orthodoxy (The Economist 2021). Newer approaches to economics and relevant topics have been added, including behavioural and information economics, institutional economics, inequality and poverty, financial crises, climate change and sustainability, to name a few. Concepts such as GDP or economic growth are nowadays discussed more critically, highlighting their limitations and presenting alternative indicators or views. Concomitantly, economics textbooks – for instance, the bestselling ones by Mankiw and Talyor (2023) or Krugman and Wells (2021) – have been revised to cover the greater width of themes and approaches. Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://fuldok.hebis.de/xmlui/handle/fuldok/809 2023-09-12T00:00:00Z https://fuldok.hebis.de/xmlui/handle/fuldok/747 Migration and Science Without Borders in Germany Nour, Samia Satti Osman Mohamed (Prof. Dr.) Abstract This paper discusses the interaction between migration and science without borders in Germany. We add to the existing studies in the international literature by presenting an interesting and an in-depth analysis of the relationship between migration and science without borders in Germany and adding valuable contribution to the increasing debate in the international literature concerning the increasing interaction between migration and increasing internationalisation worldwide. We provide new contribution by explaining the importance of migration of international academic staff, researchers, guest lecturers, and international students, at universities and non-universities research institutes in supporting science without borders in Germany. The findings prove that the importance of migration and international scientific mobility of international academic staff, and researchers and international students at universities and non-universities research institutes for supporting science without borders in Germany is demonstrated by the increasing international scientific mobility of international academic staff, researchers and international students in Germany, the increasing geographical diversification of international scientific mobility of international academic staff, researchers and international students originating from different countries, and the increasing diversification of specialisation in different specialisation fields in Germany. The results confirm Germany’s scientific leadership as a global model of fostering the increasing joint relationship between migration and science without borders that demonstrated by the contribution of migrants to strength Germany’s science system, and the contribution of Germany’s science policies to enable migration by supporting open scientific system, by creating comprehensive, coherent, sound and systematic institutional framework and science policies, and by adopting sound internationalisation strategy to attract and retain international scientific mobility of international academic staff, researchers and international students in Germany. To maintain Germany's scientific leadership model in supporting the relationship between migration and science without borders, Germany science policies must continue highlighting reducing barriers to access, improving support arrangements, strengthening international collaboration and promoting migration. Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://fuldok.hebis.de/xmlui/handle/fuldok/747 2025-08-21T00:00:00Z https://fuldok.hebis.de/xmlui/handle/fuldok/746 Science Without Borders in Germany Nour, Samia Satti Osman Mohamed (Prof. Dr.) Abstract This paper provides an overview of science without border in Germany. We provide new contribution by presenting an interesting analysis of science without borders in Germany and we add to the existing studies in the international literature by adding valuable contribution to the increasing debate in the international literature concerning the increasing importance of science without borders and increasing internationalisation worldwide. This paper reveals that the leadership of Germany in science without borders is demonstrated by the availability of recognisable and well-established scientific institutions; the prevalence of sound, systemic, coherent, and comprehensive institutional framework in Germany supporting international science, the adoption and commitment to internationalisation strategy of higher education institutions in Germany, and the availability of extensive network of higher education and research institutions and funding organisations supporting international science cooperation and science diplomacy. This paper presents examples of scientific attractiveness of Germany for science without borders proven by the availability of several outstanding German non-university research institutions that are very well-known worldwide including the German Academic Exchange Service, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Max Planck Society, Helmholtz Association, Leibniz Association, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, and the German Research Foundation. In addition, Germany’s contribution to science without borders is proven by its leading role in supporting European Erasmus project, and Global Science Networks by contributing to funding, research to infrastructure development and personnel. Furthermore, Germany’s leadership in science without borders is proven by supporting Scholars at Risk and Academic Freedom. The results confirmed that Germany’s science system strongly reflects the models of leadership in “science without borders,” by integrating international collaboration, research mobility, science diplomacy, and humanitarian support for at-risk academics. To maintain Germany's scientific leadership model in science without borders, Germany science policies need to keep putting emphasis on decreasing obstacles to access, improving support arrangements, strengthening international collaboration and promoting migration. Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://fuldok.hebis.de/xmlui/handle/fuldok/746 2025-08-21T00:00:00Z https://fuldok.hebis.de/xmlui/handle/fuldok/745 Migration of International Academic staff and Researchers to Germany Nour, Samia Satti Osman Mohamed (Prof. Dr.) Abstract This paper uses both the descriptive and comparative approaches to provide an overview and an in-depth analysis of migration of international academic staff and researchers in Germany using secondary data on migration of international academic staff and researchers in Germany. We add to the existing studies in the international literature by presenting an interesting analysis of migration of international academic staff and researchers in Germany and adding valuable contribution to the increasing debate in the international literature concerning the increasing interaction between migration and increasing internationalisation of higher education. We provide new contribution by explaining the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on migration of international academic staff and researchers in Germany. We examine the first hypothesis that the size of migration of international academic staff and researchers in Germany increased substantially over the period (2008-2023), but the distribution showed considerable variation between universities and non-university research institutes. We investigate the second hypothesis that during the COVID-19 Pandemic period (2020-2021), despite borders closure policies migration showed slight increasing trend for international academic staff and international professors in Germany originated from all world regions; except Western Europe and North America regions, implies that the COVID-19 Pandemic has not affected the flow of migration of all international academic staff and researchers in Germany originated form all world regions, but only affected academic staff and researchers from Western Europe and North America regions through Erasmus guest lecturers programme in Germany (2019-2022). Our findings in this paper seem consistent with our previous results regarding increasing diversification accompanying increasing migration of international students and international academic staff and researcher in German universities, including both increasing geographical diversification that demonstrated by the fact that the international academic staff and researchers coming from different world countries, and increasing specialisation diversification that demonstrated by specialisation in various specialisation fields. Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://fuldok.hebis.de/xmlui/handle/fuldok/745 2025-08-21T00:00:00Z