This collection of essays by prominent economists and philosophers showcases the important contributions that markets can make to important topics within social economics, including practical issues such as poverty and disaster relief, as well as more general concerns regarding ethics and well-being

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...

vDie Einführung neuer Produkte am Markt ist von zentraler Bedeutung für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines Unternehmens. Dabei sind in den letzten Jahren insbesondere Marketingmaßnahmen in der Phase vor der physischen Markteinführung in den Blickpunkt des Interesses gerückt. Die...

Classical microeconomics is intended to explain how a price system is able to coordinate the economic agents. But even if it can be extended to incomplete information and externalities, it remains grounded on very heroic assumptions. Agents are endowed with a very strong rationality, equilibrium...

Traditionally resources for R and D projects are allocated via planning and budgeting procedures, evaluation methods and hierarchical decision-committees. This book presents resource allocation via internal markets as an alternative to such hierarchical decision procedures. Internal R and D...

This volume features contributions to agent-based computational modeling from the social sciences and computer sciences. It presents applications of methodologies and tools, focusing on the uses, requirements, and constraints of agent-based models used by social scientists. Topics include...

In recent years, agent-based simulation has become a widely accepted tool when dealing with complexity in economics and other social sciences. The contributions presented in this book apply agent-based methods to derive results from complex models related to market mechanisms, evolution,...

This book contributes to behavioral economic research on the central issue of social preferences, focusing on the implications of social fairness norms on the interaction of market participants. The author uses both game-theoretic and experimental methods to analyze the implications of social...