The editors of Kyklos have asked the question: Is there a European economics? This short essay tries to give an answer by first trying to provide a framework for a sensible answer in economics, and then following suit by illustrating how in the context of this frame-work, the answer can be...

Co-determination refers to a set of rules and institutions which form an interlocking system and as such provide the unique structure of German corporate governance. This essay deals with the reasons responsible for bringing the structure about. In particular, the decision making process leading...

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...

Half a millenium ago, Theophrast Bombast von Hohenheim who called himself Paracelsus (1493-1541) entered this world in order to revolutionize thought on health care related issues in ways that seem strikingly modern today. Although to a large extent Paracelsus was still a man of the middle ages,...

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...

Europe is an area with many different jurisdictions. The attempts of the harmonizations of law have focussed on legislated law, but less on the free movement of legal professionals and on understanding of how law is being made in the different contituting parts of the European Union. In this...

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...