His scholarly and teaching interests have been moved by the connection between normative theory and the concrete institutions of public and private law.
In such situation, it becomes increasingly essential to develop economic thinking and economic models that can analyse the concrete institutions in which the market is embedded.
The stage of absolute freedom will be one in which all members freely by reason endorse the organic community and the concrete institutions in which they actually live (Phenomenology, BB, VI, B, III).
With these aims in mind (see also subsection Aims, approaches and strategies (Background)), the success of the first steps would strongly depend on the concrete institutions where the programme would be implemented initially.
How can you get traction real change in concrete practices, institutions, and policies?
More precisely these mechanisms refer to how the '…past influences present-day politics through a variety of mechanisms, ranging from concrete political institutions to patterns of interests associations to broadly accepted definitions of justice or even mundane ideas about the accepted way of doing things' (Immergut, 2005, p. 289).
The essays collected here address not just the theory but also the practice of equality, arguing for concrete changes in institutions such as higher education, the business corporation and national constitutions, to bring about a more equal society.
Given the substantive challenge of engendering a cultural shift for diversity in a university setting, this book will serve as a concrete primer for institutions seeking to develop a systematic and progressive approach to diversity organizational learning.
Thus, the 1667 treatise on the Holy Roman Empire (Pufendorf 2007) not only studied its concrete history and institutions but also examined the importance of sovereignty and state form, the tension between civil and ecclesiastical authority, and the challenge of foreign relations that emerged from these.
