Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit liefert die Frage, ob Amartya Sens Capability Approach eine geeignete Grundlage für die Definition von Armut in der EU bietet. Neben der praktischen Anwendbarkeit auf EU-Ebene sollen auch die philosophische Struktur und die historischen Wurzeln des Konzepts betrachtet...

This essay describes the evolution of the Economics of Poverty from the seminal works of Charles Booth and Joseph Rowntree to the Rediscovering Era in the 1960's. It shows how the leading objectives of its authors changed over the decades. The description is roughly exhaustive, pointing out the...

Originality has a self-evident importance for science, but objectively measuring originality poses a formidable challenge. We conceptualise originality as the degree to which a scientific discovery provides subsequent studies with unique knowledge that is not available from previous studies....

In the literature, several approaches have been taken to measure the impact of demographic ageing on public pension schemes, with particular attention being paid to potential fiscal imbalances across the generations involved in demographic transition. In this paper, we review three of these...