Dieser Beitrag enthält drei Kurzartikel. Der erste behandelt die Wirtschaftspolitik, derzweite die Soziale Sicherung. Der dritte skizziert den Ansatz der Ökonomischen Ethik,ein Forschungsprogramm, das in jüngster Zeit auch unter der Bezeichnung„Ordonomik“ vorangetrieben wird. Eingerahmt...

The purpose of this article is to develop an ordonomic conceptualization of corporate citizenshipand new governance that (a) provides a framework for positively explaining thepolitical participation of companies in new governance processes and (b) does not weakenbut instead strengthens the...

Vega-Redondo (1997) showed that imitation leads to the Walrasian outcome in Cournot Oligopoly. We generalize his result to aggregative quasi-submodular games. Examples are the Cournot Oligopoly, Bertrand games with differentiated complementary products, Common- Pool Resource games, Rent-Seeking...

We present a formal model of symmetric n-firm Cournot oligopoly with a heterogeneous population of profit optimizers and imitators. Imitators mimic the output decision of the most successful firms of the previous round a la Vega-Redondo (1997). Optimizers play myopic best response to the...