Departmental Library of Economics and Social Sciences
Shelf Classification

Form Divisions

• 550Biographies (incl. author bibliographies)
• 600Festschriften (general)
• 650Serials in continuation
• 660Working papers of TU Dortmund
• 670Discussion papers from other universities
• 700Complete editions, partial issues
• 750Fiction, popular and various works

• 1050General Sociology (see also 5100 ff.)

Methods of the Economic and Social Sciences

• 1100Theory of science. Methodology of economics and social sciences, academic writing
• 1110Empirical social research - methods and techniques
• 1120Empirical economic research - theory and methodology
• 1150Economic and social sciences (general)

Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics

Mathematics

• 1300Mathematical methods
• 1305Mathematics for economists
• 1307Mathematization of the social sciences
• 1310Mathematical finance and economics

Data processing

• 1315Data processing (technique, languages, programmes)

Economic and Social Statistics

(Business statistics, see 2830)

• 1325General outlines, textbooks
• 1330Methods of business and social scientific statistics, mathematical statistics, statistical sources in Germany (by editor)
• 1335Federal statistics
• 1340Statistics of the German federal states
• 1345Municipal statistics
• 1355Private statistics
• 1360Statistics of international organisations
• 1367Statistics of single countries (in alphabetical order)

Econometrics

• 1385Econometrics

Decision Theory and Operations Research

• 1395Decision, decision theory and research

Operations Research

• 1400Operations Research
• 1403General outlines, textbooks
• 1415Stochastic models, simulations; stock-keeping and queuing theory
• 1425Graph theory (incl. network planning)
• 1440Andere Verfahren

Cybernetics, Information Theory, Systems Research

• 1500 General outlines
• 1600Systems reaearch, analysis, technique, theory, systems approach

Technological Progress, Innovation

• 1700Technological progress, innovation (see also 2750 u. 3220)

Artificial Intelligence

• 1800Artificial intelligence, expert systems

Didactics of Economics

• 1900General didactics / pedagogics
• 1910Curriculum development / course planning
• 1920Didactics of economics
• 1930Economic education

Business Studies

• 2000Reference works
• 2005General outlines (textbooks, festschriften, collections)
• 2010History of business studies (incl. history of individual enterprises)
• 2015Data processing in an enterprise (general), business informatics
• 2017Electronic commerce, e-business

Business Studies: Organisation and Planning

• 2020General outlines
• 2023Formation of an enterprise, entrepreneurship
• 2025Corporate governance (psychology of leadership, see 7100)
• 2027Quality management
• 2030Environmental economics of firms
• 2032Planning and controlling
• 2035Legal forms (company law, see 6020)
• 2040Mergers, cooperations
• 2045Organisation (incl. project management)
• 2050Managing information systems, operational communication and knowledge management
• 2055Data processing in organisation and planning

Business Studies: Human Resources

• 2300General outlines
• 2305Work Science
  (incl.: Ergonomics, labour physiology, labour pedagogics, labour protection, accident research, accident prevention, labour psychology, labour technology, job analysis, job engineering, job evaluation.)
  (Social organisation of an enterprise, human and industrial relations; see 5100 industrial sociology)
• 2315Compensation systems
• 2320Personnel policy and management (incl. employee training)

Business Studies: Materials Management, Logistics

• 2410Purchasing, storing, logistics

Business Studies: Production

• 2432General outlines
• 2435Production and cost theory (general production theory, see 3030)
• 2440Manufacturing process and technique
• 2445?Asset management Anlagenwirtschaft (incl. maintenance)
• 2450 Manufacturing planning and control (incl. production scheduling)

Business Studies: Location Problems

• 2500Location problems

Business Studies: Marketing

• 2605Marketing (general)
• 2620Individual marketing instruments (marketing methods, pricing, industrial design and product range selection, forms of distribution)
• 2630 Advertising, public relations
• 2650Market research
• 2660Consumer behaviour

Business Studies: Financing

• 2703General outlines
• 2705Financial planning and control, liquidity
• 2707Equity and self-finaning
• 2710Debt financing, credit standing, leasing, factoring
• 2712Extraordinary financing ?circumstances

Business Studies: Investment

• 2720General outlines
• 2725Investment planning und appraisal
• 2735Investment and financing
• 2740Investment analysis (amongst others)
• 2750Research and development in an enterprise, company size and growth

Business Studies: Accounting

• 2805General outlines
• 2810?Accounting training
• 2815Accounting theory, policy, analysis, financial statements (incl. cash flow)
• 2820Cost accounting, short-term income statement (cost theory, see 2435)
• 2825Data processing in accounting (data processing in general, see 1315)
• 2830Value analysis

Special Business Studies

• 2840Business taxation
• 2850Auditing and trustee relationships (incl. business valuation)
• 2860Banking management
• 2870Insurance marketing (incl. insurance mathematics; mathematical finance and economics, see 1310)
• 2880Industrial management
• 2887International business
• 2890Retail management
• 2902Hospital management etc.

Economic Sectors

• 2905Service sector
• 2906Tourism
• 2910Agriculture (incl. fishing and forestry)
• 2920Social economy, cooperatives (Sociology of organisations and associations, see 5340)
• 2930Handicraft

Special Branches of Industry

• 2940Basic and capital industry
• 2945Automobile industry
• 2950Consumer goods industry
• 2960Mining and energy industry
• 2980Housing industry. Building industry
• 2990Other (e.g. sport)

Economics

• 3002Reference works
• 3005General outlines, textbooks and collections (if not special literature)
• 3006Economic theory, in particular equilibrium theory
• 3007Microeconomics (incl. theory of the firm)
• 3009Macroeconomics
• 3010Economic doctrines, history of ideas

Economics: Production theory

• 3030Production theory

Economics: Resources

• 3037Resources

Economics: Budget Theory

• 3100Budget theory (incl. empirical studies)

Economics: Consumer Research

• 3110Consumer research (see also 2660 consumer behaviour)

Economics: Theories of Interest, Capital and Investment

• 3170Theories of Interest, Capital and Investment

Economics: Theory and Policy of Distribution

• 3180General
• 3185Special problems (wages theory and policy, distribution of wealth; codetermination and formation of wealth, see Social policy 3703 ff.)

Economics: Economic Cycles

• 3192Economic Cycles, national accounts, input-output tables, shadow economy
• 3195Input-output analysis

Economics: Employment, Business Cycles and Growth

• 3198General
• 3200Macroeconomic models (incl. econometric models)
• 3210Economic cycles. Theory of business cycles and employment
• 3220Growth. Theory of growth, theory of technological progress

Economics: Welfare Economics

• 3230Business cycle policy, employment policy, growth policy
• 3240General
• 3250Cost-benefit analysis
• 3255Application of cost-benefit analysis

Economics: Money, Credit and Currency

• 3305General
• 3310Theory of money
• 3315Money and credit policy, central banks, monetary poliy (general)
• 3320Inflation and stagflation (incl. value guaranty clause)
• 3325Financial and capital market, stock exchanges, financial economics
• 3335International monetary systems and agreements, international liquidity problems
• 3345International payments. Theory of monetary international economic relations

Economics: Foreign Trade and International Economic Relations

• 3363General
• 3365Theory of international economic relations (see also International payments. Theory of monetary international economic relations 3345)
• 3385Foreign trade policy

Economics: Economic Integration

• 3405General
• 3410European Union
• 3411European Monetary Union
• 3415Publications of the EU
• 3420Other economic unions and free trade zones

Economics: Economic Policy

• 3425Economic policy in general, theory of economic policy
• 3430Pricing policy (?transport tariffs, see 3620; pricing policy in farming, see 3450)
• 3440Alternative economic policy
• 3450Farming policy
• 3455Business and industrial policy (incl. history, handicrafts, middle class, patent affairs, special problems in industry and handicrafts)
• 3460Other special problems of economic policy (e.g. energy policy, investment control, associations)

Economics: Economic Systems

• 3463General
• 3465Capitalism, liberalism, interventionism
• 3470Socialism, syndicalism, communism, soviet system, cooperative systems
• 3475Reform of eastern economic systems
• 3480Comparison of economic systems
• 3485Economic planning (see also economic policy 3425 ff.; economic doctrines 3010; political economy 5010)

Economics: Competition and Concentration

• 3500General, industrial organisation
• 3505Competition theory
• 3510Competition policy

Economics: Competition Policy and Concentration Research in individual Countries

• 3515Germany
• 3520United States
• 3525European Union
• 3530Other (alphabetical order)

Public Transport and Transport Policy

• 3550Public transport and transport policy (metropolitan transport, see 3610)
• 3560Communications, telecommunications

Urban Economics, Public Goods, Environmental Economics, Economic Problems of industrial Agglomerations

• 3600Urban economics, economic problems of industrial agglomerations (general)
• 3605Theory and policy of spatial economics
• 3608Structural policy
• 3609Regional economics, regional economic policy
• 3610Problems of metropolitan transport (transport tariffs, see 3620)
• 3617Infrastructure policy. Public investments. Public goods. External effects
• 3620Pricing of public enterprises (transport tariffs, pricing of public utilities, incl. peak-load pricing, pricing of decreasing marginal costs, usage fees)
• 3630Environmental economics (incl. environmental quality and quality of life)

Social Policy

• 3703General
• 3705Theory of social policy
• 3710Practice of social policy
• 3715Public health
• 3720Participation and formation of wealth

Public Sector

• 3730Public sector (general, incl. public enterprises)

Finance

• 3755General
• 3760Financial constitution, administration, reform incl. ?PPBS
• 3775Financial policy
• 3785Public spending (subsidies)
• 3800Public revenues (incl. tax theory and taxes; business taxation, see 2840)
• 3810Public debt, public finances

Development Theory and Policy

• 3850Developing countries, development aid, development theory (incl. beginnings in the age of imperialism)

Demography

• 3860Population theory and policy

History, especially Economic and Social History

• 3880General, methodological problems, general outlines, textbooks
• 3883Ancient world and Middle Ages
• 3885Modern age
• 3890Contemporary history (from 1945 on)
• 3895Special items (technology, ideas, arts, history of the working class etc.)

Geography, particularly Economic Geography

• 3900Geography

Economics of individual Countries

• 3910General
• 3920Africa
• 3930America
• 3935USA
• 3937Latin America
• 3950Asia
• 3955Japan
• 3960Australia and Oceania
• 3963Soviet Union
• 3965Northern Europe
• 3970Western and Central Europe
• 3972Germany
• 3980Eastern and South Eastern Europe
• 3987Southern Europe

Politcal Economy

(see also economic policy 3425 ff.; developing countries 3850, economic systems 3465 ff.)

• 5010General outlines, textbooks
• 5020Special problems (?public choice theory, see 5665)

Problems of Sociology

(see also general sociology 1050)

• 5100Industry, labour, industrial relations, industrial sociology (work science, see 2305)
• 5200Job market, wages, bargaining partners
• 5300Sociology of adolescents, of families, socialisation
• 5310Question of women's rights
• 5340Organisational sociology
• 5360Sociology of economics
• 5380Other sociologies (law, culture, arts, mass communications, religion etc.; sociology of science, see 5800; industrial sociology, see 5100)

Political Science

• 5600General, textbooks, methodology
• 5620Political theory
• 5640Political Systems (incl. government systems and comparative government)
• 5660Political sociology
• 5665?Public choice theory
• 5680Foreign policy and international relations
• 5800Education, science, research, sociology of science
• 5850Futurology
• 5900Science of planning and administration (finance, see 3755)
• 5970Military economy

Law

• 6001General
• 6003Civil law
• 6010Public law (incl. taxation law; competition law, see 3500 ff.)
• 6020Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht ( auch Wirtschaftskriminalität)
• 6030Commercial and social law
• 6070International law (incl. law of the EU)

Other Disciplines

• 7050Anthropology, ethnology
• 7100Psychology, Social psychology, pedagogics
• 7150Philosophy, social philosophy, theology, social ethics
• 7500Journalism

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