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...

This is the first biography of a world-famous pioneering development economist, Sir Hans W. Singer, who is better known throughout the developing world than any other economist, living or dead. It gives a detailed account of the way in which the 'twists of fate' led him to becoming a leading...

This timely book makes a forceful argument that the analyses from behavioral economists are incomplete, the policies advocated by libertarian paternalists are misguided and unethical, and both actually reinforce the cognitive biases and dysfunctions that motivate 'nudges' in the first place. In...

This textbook connects three vibrant areas at the interface between economics and computer science: algorithmic game theory, computational social choice, and fair division. It thus offers an interdisciplinary treatment of collective decision making from an economic and computational perspective....

This contributed volume combines approaches of the current inequality debate with aspects of finance based on profound macroeconomic model analyses. Research on inequality has had a long tradition in economics. With the financial crisis from 2007, not only output decreased tremendously, but also...

This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek out new ways to analyze this relationship based on technology and business practices, with the objective of restoring digital technology as an engine of opportunity. Besides the unique focus on the...

„Die Armen werden immer ärmer, die Reichen immer reicher“ - das ist wohl die Kurzformel einer der drängendsten Debatten unserer Zeit. Dabei kennt diese Debatte scheinbar nur eine Antwort: Umverteilung. Mit „Gerechte Teilhabe statt Umverteilung“ gehen die Autoren dieses Buches...

Eigentum verpflichtet, so ist es schon im Grundgesetz festgehalten. Eigentum und Vermögen, Kapital und Besitz stellen eine Form des persönlichen wie gesellschaftlichen Reichtums dar. Doch wie wird dieser Reichtum erworben? Wie wird er verteilt? Die Grundwerte des wirtschaftlichen Handelns sind...

1. Introduction -- 2. Theory -- 3. The State of Emerging Democracies -- 4. Multidimensionality and Preferences for Income Equality -- 5. Political Determinants of Income Inequality: Panel Analysis -- 6. Conclusion.