Im Gegensatz zur politischen Diskussion scheint unter deutschen Wirtschaftswissenschaftlern ein Konsens zu bestehen, daß Studiengebühren eingeführt werden sollten. Es soll dargelegt werden, welche ökonomischen Gründe trotzdem gegen Studiengebühren sprechen. Vorbereitend ist zu zeigen, daß...

Die Dissertation stellt die bundesdeutsche Sportförderpraxis in quantitativer wie qualitativer Hinsicht über einen Zeitraum von 25 Jahren dar, wobei - im Gegensatz zu bisherigen Veröffentlichungen - die kommunale Sportförderung im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung steht. Einen zweiten Schwerpunkt...

Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals' decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...

Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals' decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...

In this paper, we investigate the relation between public and private consumption, by constructing a general government spending data set, by function, for twelve European Union countries. In particular, we split government consumption into two categories. The first category includes defense,...

In a paper delivered at the December 1955 meeting of the Econometric Society, Paul Samuelson noted that though economists had done "work of high quality and great quantity in the field of taxation," the theory of public expenditure had been "relatively neglected" (1958, 332). Anglo-American...