Institute for Institutional and Heterodox Economics

Where you can find us:

UZA 1, Section C, Upper Level 5
Augasse 2-6
1090 Vienna

Contact:
Tel.: +43-1/31336-4515 or 4516
Fax: +43-1/31336-726
Email to the office

Opening Hours of the Institute and of the Library

Mission Statement

Our faculty and staff concentrate on issues relevant to the current economic situation. Mainstream economic methods are characterized by an individualistic perspective. However, explanation variables for economic processes cannot be based solely on “individual rational behavior”. Thus the logical next step is to pursue the question of what determines economic behavior, and on which factors it is institutionally and culturally based. We concentrate on these neglected issues from the perspective of Political Economics, the theory of the inseparable influences that political, social, cultural and political components have on the economy.

Our main research areas are:

• Institutional and evolutionary economics
• Alternative political economics
• History of economic thought
• Political economy of the media
• Sustainable development
• Feminist aspects of political economics / feminist economics
• Globalization 
• Epistemics and economics

Emphasis in teaching

In teaching, a practical approach is used to make the theories of institutional and evolutionary economics, alternative political economics, history of economic thought, political economy of the media, sustainable development, feminist economics, globalization, and epistemics accessible to students.

Emphasis in Research

Institutional and Evolutionary Economics
Heterodox Political Economy
History of Economic Thought
Political Economy of the Media
Feminist Economics
Globalization
Epistemics and Economics