Bei vielen Gelegenheiten wird darüber informiert, dass die Akzeptanz der Marktwirtschaft in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich zurückgegangen sei. Manchmal stammt diese Behauptung aus einer fundamentalen Kapitalismuskritik, manchmal wird sie aus punktuellen Umfrageergebnissen abgeleitet. Nicht...

In this book, one of Germany's most influential economists describes his country's economy, the largest in the European Union and the third largest in the world, and analyzes its weaknesses: poor GDP growth performance, high unemployment due to a malfunctioning labor market, and an unsustainable...

The book presents the economic policy model known as “Social Market Economy” in Germany, the country where it originated. Although the model has since been adopted as core objective in the EU Treaty of Lisbon, experts still disagree on its exact nature. The author contributes to this debate...

This book develops John Rawls’s theory of justice by adding reality-based analyses. This is accomplished by answering the question of who makes rules and how, and by providing new answers to three of today’s most practical and critical issues. The question of who and how makes rules is...