Thomas Lux – författare

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Today’s political debates are fiercely polarized. But looking beyond the headlines, this book shows that ordinary citizens hold much more nuanced, less divided views. Drawing on rich survey data and group discussions, this work maps four major areas of conflict: migration, climate change, diversity, and economic justice.Across these conflicts, most citizens take positions that are middle-of-the-road, contradictory, or undecided. It is only certain ‘trigger points' – like gendered pronouns or refugee admissions – that predictably ignite tensions and deep disagreement. Political entrepreneurs know this and weaponize trigger points for their agenda. Yet the real key to contemporary conflicts, the book argues, lies in social inequality.This is a vital work that maps today’s political landscape without sensationalism, offering a fresh lens on public debate.

After starting out as a neo-surrealist American poet in the 1970s, Thomas Lux 'drifted away from surrealism and the arbitrariness of all that. I got more interested in subjects, identifiable subjects other than my own angst or ennui.' The later Lux writes more directly in response to more familiar but no less strange human experience, creating a body of work that is at once simple and complex, wildly imaginative and totally relevant. He uses humour or satire 'to help combat the darkness - to make the reader laugh - and then steal that laugh, right out of the throat. Because I think life is like that, tragedy right alongside humour.' Each of Lux's multi-faceted poems is self-contained, whether it is musing or ranting, lamenting or lambasting, first person personal or first person universal. 'Usually, the speaker of my poems is a little agitated,' says Lux, 'a little smart-ass, a little angry, satirical, despairing. Or, sometimes he's goofy, somewhat elegiac, full of praise and gratitude.'

Economic application of nonlinear dynamics, microscopic agent-based modelling, and the use of artificial intelligence techniques as learning devices of boundedly rational actors are among the most exciting interdisciplinary ventures of economic theory over the past decade. This volume provides us with a most fascinating series of examples on "complexity in action" exemplifying the scope and explanatory power of these innovative approaches.

The limits imposed on economic modeling by the representative agent hypothesis have prevented dynamic analysis from fully exploring the links between the micro and macro level of the economic system. This book presents developments and applications of the innovative techniques of dynamic stochastic aggregation, first proposed by Masanao Aoki, through an implementation in a New Keynesian financial fragility framework. The introduction in macroeconomics of statistical mechanics tools, such as mean-field interaction, statistical entropy and master equation, constitutes a step toward a new definition of microfoundation and allows an integrated modeling of the relationships between micro financial variables and aggregate indicators.

Das Buch liefert einen umfassenden Überblick über das neue Forschungsgebiet E-Health-Ökonomie und zeigt den aktuellen Stand der Diskussion in Wissenschaft, Praxis und Politik auf. Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitswirtschaft, Gesundheitsversorgung sowie ambulante, stationäre, sektorenübergreifende Versorgung und die Erstellung von Leistungen am Gesundheitsstandort der privaten Haushalte: E-Health ist heute und besonders in Zukunft, einhergehend mit weiteren technologischen Innovationen, von großer Bedeutung. Mit dem neuen E-Health-Gesetz findet das Buch den Bezug zur aktuellen politischen Auseinandersetzung und bietet mit seinen ökonomischen Artikeln einen Beitrag für die Diskussion um Nutzen und Mehrwert von Informationstechnologie in der Gesundheitswirtschaft. Praktiker und Wissenschaftler aus Medizin, Informatik und (Gesundheits-)Ökonomie sind genauso angesprochen wie alle weiteren Akteure, welche sich mit der Ökonomie des Einsatzes von IT in der Gesundheitswirtschaft beschäftigen. Lehrenden und Studierenden gibt das Buch einen umfassenden Überblick. Das Buch bietet sich aufgrund seiner Struktur als Gesamtlektüre genauso an wie die selektive Wahl einzelner thematischer Kapitel oder auch einzelner Beiträge der verschiedenen Autoren.

Das Buch ist als Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch konzipiert. Es ist modular aufgebaut und beinhaltet in 10 Kapiteln Einführungen in die elementaren Bereiche der Wirtschaftsinformatik. Die Kapitel umfassen neben inhaltlichen Exkursen am Ende jeweils auch Wiederholungsfragen und praktische Aufgaben, für die in einem gesonderten Kapitel Lösungen bereitgestellt werden. Den Abschluss bilden zwei Fallstudien zur Digitalen Transformation. Das Buch eignet sich als Begleitwerk für Vorlesungen an Universitäten und Fachhochschulen, aber auch als Vertiefungsquelle für Ausbildungsgänge mit IT-Bezug.

E-Health ist aus der Gesundheitsversorgung nicht mehr wegzudenken – das Digitale Versorgungsgesetz (DVG) auf politischer und die Gesundheits-App auf Rezept (DiGA) auf praktischer Ebene zeigen, dass die Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen Einzug gehalten hat.Immer stärker in den Fokus rücken nun ökonomische Betrachtungen und Analysen von E-Health. Dieses Buch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Herausforderungen der Evaluation und Implementierung von E-Health-Anwendungen vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Diskussion und Entwicklung in Wissenschaft, Praxis sowie Politik. Dabei referenzieren die Beiträge von Wissenschaftlern und Branchenexperten weitestgehend auf ein standardisiertes Rahmenwerk zur Evaluation von E-Health und zeigen anhand konkreter Projekte praktische Vorgehensweisen sowie Chancen und Hürden der Implementierung auf. Sie liefern Einsichten und Argumente für die Diskussion um den gesundheitsökonomischen Nutzen und Mehrwert von Informationstechnologie in der Gesundheitswirtschaft.Praktiker und Wissenschaftler aus Medizin, Informatik und (Gesundheits-)Ökonomie sind genauso angesprochen wie alle weiteren Akteure, die sich mit der Ökonomie des Einsatzes von IT in der Gesundheitswirtschaft beschäftigen. Lehrenden und Studierenden gibt das Buch eine Übersicht zum aktuellen Stand der E-Health-Ökonomie.

This book takes you on a journey into the world of business informatics. It has a modular structure and covers the key aspects of business informatics. Besides the thematic introductions, each chapter includes excursuses, review questions, and practical exercises, for which solutions are provided in a separate chapter.

Throughout the history of economics, a variety of analytical tools have been borrowed from the so-called exact sciences. As Schoe?er (1955) puts it: “They have taken their mathematics and their ded- tive techniques from physics, their statistics from genetics and agr- omy, their systems of classi?cation from taxonomy and chemistry, their model-construction techniques from astronomy and mechanics, and their methods of analysis of the consequences of actions from en- neering”. The possibility of similarities of structure in mathematical models of economic and physical systems has been an important f- tor in the development of neoclassical theory. To treat the state of an economy as an equilibrium, analogous to the equilibrium of a mech- ical system has been a key concept in economics ever since it became a mathematically formalized science. Adopting a Newtonian paradigm neoclassical economics often is based on three fundamental concepts. Firstly, the representative agent who is a scale model of the whole society with extraordinary capacities, particularly concerning her - pability of information processing and computation. Of course, this is a problematic reduction as agents are both heterogeneous and bou- edly rational and limited in their cognitive capabilities. Secondly, it often con?ned itself to study systems in a state of equilibrium. But this concept is not adequate to describe and to support phenomena in perpetual motion.

Throughout the history of economics, a variety of analytical tools have been borrowed from the so-called exact sciences. As Schoe?er (1955) puts it: “They have taken their mathematics and their ded- tive techniques from physics, their statistics from genetics and agr- omy, their systems of classi?cation from taxonomy and chemistry, their model-construction techniques from astronomy and mechanics, and their methods of analysis of the consequences of actions from en- neering”. The possibility of similarities of structure in mathematical models of economic and physical systems has been an important f- tor in the development of neoclassical theory. To treat the state of an economy as an equilibrium, analogous to the equilibrium of a mech- ical system has been a key concept in economics ever since it became a mathematically formalized science. Adopting a Newtonian paradigm neoclassical economics often is based on three fundamental concepts. Firstly, the representative agent who is a scale model of the whole society with extraordinary capacities, particularly concerning her - pability of information processing and computation. Of course, this is a problematic reduction as agents are both heterogeneous and bou- edly rational and limited in their cognitive capabilities. Secondly, it often con?ned itself to study systems in a state of equilibrium. But this concept is not adequate to describe and to support phenomena in perpetual motion.