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In the past decade, an ever increasing trend to capture (social) life in numbers became a prominent instantiation of the so-called ‘audit society’ (Power, 1999). Datafication affects many social domains and one of the most noticeable is education. Digital educational data are distinct from pre-digital forms as they may be exhaustive in scope, highly detailed, and can be combined in a flexible manner and at different aggregation levels.

Research on neoliberalism is still divided into social scientific and social history literatures on the one hand, and economic and intellectual history literature on the other hand. Major publications also still suffer from Anglo-Saxon bias due to a focus on English language literature despite a wide range of relevant publications in other major languages.

Recent historiography has tended to downplay the importance of the family in neoliberal revisions of the social. And yet a closer look at the key economic debates of the 1970s indicates that a focus on private family values was central to the neoliberal project of a free market order. Whether they were looking at the question of welfare reform, inheritance or the financing of higher education, neoliberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker and James Buchanan were adamant that the private family should replace the social insurance state as the primary source of economic security.

In dem Vortrag werden die langfristig wirksamen Politik‐Schritte zur Aufrechterhaltung des weltwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts angesichts der gestiegenen Chancen und Zwänge zur internationalen Wanderung betrachtet. Der Druck auf immer mehr Gleichheit (Tocqueville) erzwingt heute eine Globalisierung der Lebensbedingungen, wie sie in den reichen Ländern (dem „Norden“) vorgefunden werden. Ein Abflauen der Wanderungen aus dem „Süden“ (der Dritten Welt) in den „Norden“ kann nur erwartet werden, wenn der Süden wirtschaftlich merklich schneller wächst als bisher.

How can we change social norms, the standards describing typical or desirable behavior? Because individuals’ perceptions of norms guide their personal behavior, influencing these perceptions is one way to create social change. And yet individuals do not form perceptions of typical or desirable behavior in an unbiased manner. Individuals attend to select sources of normative information, and their resulting perceptions rarely match actual rates of behavior in their environment. Thus, changing social norms requires an understanding of how individuals perceive norms in the first place.