This paper discusses consequences of changing economic conditions and job characteristics for individual behaviour by means of addiction. The central assumption is that unwanted high consumption of health damaging goods leads to an income loss. If an individual has decided on his consumption...

Drug consumption is a voluntary decision based on preexisting situational contexts, social events, personal traits and cultural circumstances. Because of this, drug consumption is not pathological but rather normal and ubiquitous. It is only as a result of persecution by the authorities of...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag sollen die Regulierungskonzepte des GlückG und des GlüÄndStV aus ökonomischer Perspektive verglichen werden. Dazu werden im nächsten Abschnitt mögliche Ziele abgeleitet, die durch die Regulierung erreicht werden sollen. In Abschnitt 3 werden beide Konzepte...