In diesem Beitrag wird es darum gehen, die historischen und wissenschaftstheoretischen Hintergründe des Konflikts zwischen dem Gleichgewichtsparadigma der neoklassischen Orthodoxie und einer evolutorischen Sicht des Marktes zu beleuchten.

This paper is an exercise in conceptual clarification. Its purpose is to explore the contribution that constitutional economics can make to the theory of democracy. Constitutional economics as the economics of rules is concerned with the study of how the choice of rules in the social, economic...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become not only a growing subject in business schools and in academic as well as public discourse more generally, the CSR-movement has grown into a major industry providing a profitable niche for a variety of non-profit organizations. The literature...

In Franz Böhms Konzept der Privatrechtsgesellschaft als einer Gesellschaft von Gleichfreien und Gleichberechtigten (Böhm 1980b: 140) bündeln sich in prägnanter Weise die theoretischen und politischen Kernvorstellungen des rechts- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschungsprogramms der von...

The growth of the democratic welfare state has been accompanied by significant restrictions on individual liberty, raising doubts about the sustainability of the ideals of liberalism in democratic polities. The principal claim of this paper is that, adequately understood, liberalism and...