Im Jahr 1873, vor 150 Jahren, wurde der Verein für Socialpolitik gegründet. Aus diesem Anlass beschäftigte sich der Vereinsausschuss für die Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaft im Juni 2022 mit zentralen Themen der Vereinsgeschichte. Analysiert wird die Rolle von Gustav Schmoller als...

What role does government play in the provision of public goods? Economists have used the lighthouse as an empirical example to illustrate the extent to which the private provision of public goods is possible. This inquiry, however, has neglected the private provision of lightships. We...

Scholars of John Maynard Keynes' life and contributions to economics have tended to approach his involvement in the early 20th century eugenics movement by either:(1) historicizing it as a regrettable political curiosity with only minor connections to his larger system of economic thought or,(2)...

Neither economics nor political science can explain the process of modern social development. The fact that developed societies always have developed economies and developed polities suggests that the connection between economics and politics must be a fundamental part of the development...

Neither economics nor political science can explain the process of modern social development. The fact that developed societies always have developed economies and developed polities suggests that the connection between economics and politics must be a fundamental part of the development...