This note represents results about the extent of teaching the history of economic thought at German language based universities. At the time when cuts need to be made, many universi ties are thought of cutting non-essential courses first, of which the history of economic thought might be...

Manchmal sind Privatisierungen im herkömmlichen Sinne nicht das effektivste Verfahren, um mit einen Erbe an Staatsunternehmungen zu verfahren, die den neuen wirtschaftlichen Bedingungen nicht mehr entsprechen. Dieser Beitrag greift auf einen ausgereiften Gesetzentwurf zurück, um eine...

The purpose of this article is to explore the usefulness of these concepts in economic theory: (1) order; (2) entrepreneur; and (3) style for modern analysis. Obviously, all three categories require primarily qualitative data for explanation built around them. In this essay, the major area of...

An independence system is a family I of subsets of a ground set V with the property that any subset of any member of I also belongs to I. The inclusion-minimal sets not in I are called minimal covers. We prove several complexity results related to computation, enumeration, and counting of the...

Georg Simmel (1858-1918) veröffentlichte 1899 und 1907 seine ''Philosophie des Geldes''. Die Rezeption in der amerikanischen Literatur aber aber auch in den Beitrag von Dietz betohnt den Ökonomisch-Geldtheoretischen Aspekt dieses Beitrages und sucht ihn in der österreichischen Tradition der...

This entry for a Handbook of Evolutionary Economics offers a short sketch of the applicability of evolutionary economics to law, and in particular to the economic analysis of law. The entry has three main sections, emphasizing in turn issues of transaction costs, the concept of the legal system...

Georg Simmel (1858-1918) veröffentlichte 1899 und1907 seine Philosophie des Geldes. Die Rezeption in der amerikanischen Literatur betont den Ökonomisch-Geldtheoretischen Aspekt dieses Beitrages und sucht ihn in der österreichischen Tradition der Volkswirtschaftslehre zu verankern. Aus der...

We study (anti-) coordination problems in networks in a laboratory experiment. Participants interact with their neighbours in a fixed network to play a bilateral (anti-) coordination game. Our main treatment variable is the extent to which players are heterogeneous in thenumber of connections...