An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical change and population aging. Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and how population aging aff ects the relative scarcity of factors of...

Dieser Aufsatz diskutiert Wege zur Lösung von Umweltproblemen. Einen Weg bietet die Wirtschaftswissenschaft: Sie hat ökonomische Instrumente entwickelt, die der Umwelt einen Marktpreis zuordnen und so den Marktmechanismus zur Lösung von Umweltproblemen einsetzten. Dieser Weg der...

Neo-Austrian modelling is still a relatively unfamiliar technique to many ecological economists, although there is now a significant body of published work on the method and its applications. In this paper we aim to introduce the method, offering a rather brief sketch of its history, indicating...

The concept of a non-extreme-outcome-additive capacity (neo-additive capacity ) is introduced. Neo-additive capacities model optimistic and pessimistic attitudes towards uncertainty as observed in many experimental studies. Moreover, neo-additive capacities can be applied easily in economic...