Bücher von Timo Airaksinen

MSSR, Volume 6, edited by Manfred J. Holler, offers a discussion and an analysis of large variety of socio-economic, social and political issues with an historical background. Timo Airaksinen contributes a dialectical approach to pataphysics and pataphors. Referring to Theodore Dreiser¿s novel Sister Carrie and his ¿Trilogy of Desire¿ (or ¿Cowperwood Trilogy¿) and Oscar Wilde¿s 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Gloria McMillan demonstrates the effects and consequences of the class gaze. Andreas Pawlas and Florian Follert et al. discuss the interest-ban problem in contemporary Christianity as well its historical background, also in other religions. Emmanouil M.L. Economou offers an analysis of Athen¿s ¿turn to the seä strategy and the transformation of its economy. Mercantilism and free trade are Dan Rees¿ point of departure to study the Chinese opium wars triggered by the UK. In the context of his initiative for a better democracy Peter Emerson reviews the Dutch electoral system.

Beiträge: Christian Jokinen, Germany¿s Revolutionizing Strategies in 1914-1918 and the Secret Comrades-in-arms of the Finnish Jäger * Vesa Vares, The Kingdom That Never Was: Germany, Finland, and the Finnish Monarchist Project of 1918 * Detlev Pleiss, Finnish Soldiers Facing Fehrbellin: The Battle of Rathenow * Pirkko Koski, Hella Wuolijoki, Bertolt Brecht, and Multi-layered National Identity* Timo Airaksinen, Socrates Meets the Crocodile, or The Ironies of Brecht¿s and Wuolijoki¿s Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti * Klaus Reichel, Summer 1940 in Iitti: Hella Wuolijoki and Bertolt Brecht, *Judith Köbler*, Mirroring Society through the Constitutional Lens: Finland and Germany

Finnish-GermanYearbook ofPoliticalEconomyEdited by Timo AiraksinenManfred J. HollerHannu Nurmi