The official intention of the UNESCO World Heritage List is to protect the global heritage. However, the existing List is highly imbalanced according to countries and continents. Historical reasons, such as historical GDP, population, and number of years of high civilization, have a significant...

A statistical analysis of the UNESCO World Heritage List is presented. The World Heritage Convention intends to protect global heritage of outstanding value to mankind, but there has been great concern about the missing representativity of the member countries. There is a strongly biased...

The UNESCO World Heritage List is designed to protect the global heritage. We show that, with respect to countries and continents, the existing World Heritage List is highly imbalanced. Major econometric determinants of this imbalance are historical GDP, historical population, area in square...

Wie kommt es, dass in einer Ökonomie, in der jeder nach seinem eigenen Nutzen strebt, kein Chaos herrscht, sondern sich ein Zustand des Gleichgewichts einstellt? Diese verblüffende Frage beantwortete Adam Smith mit der Metapher der 'unsichtbaren Hand'. Seine Antwort wurde zur Initialzündung...

This paper argues that the "Economics of Crime" concentrates too much on punishment as a means of preventing crime, which is unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible alternatives to punishment exist, such as...