"A highly reasonable, lightly fun introduction to thinking like an economist. When economists wrestle with issues such as unemployment, inflation, or pandemics, they do so in an impersonal, detached way: what's the most low-cost way to maximize good and minimize bad? These trade-offs constitute...

Abstract: Die mit diesem Band vorgelegte Sammlung von Aufsätzen aus fast zwei Jahrzehnten ist als Beitrag in aufklärender Absicht zu einer akademischen Diskussion gedacht, dem sogenannten neuen Methodenstreit, in dem die wissenschaftliche Valenz der Ordnungsökonomik und der Wirtschaftspolitik...

Inequality is a global concern, for its social and human consequences, and its impact on the pace and pattern of economic growth. In India and Brazil, this issue has received increasing attention in recent years. In Brazil, inequality grew until the 1980s, when it reached extreme levels, but has...

PART I: Introduction -- 1. The Business of Social and Environmental Innovation: Introduction -- PART II: Entrepreneurs -- 2. Innovations in Social Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Biofuel Production: The Case of Tanzanian Outgrowers Cultivating Jatropha for the Global Biofuel Chain -- 3. Social...