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,...

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...

The Handbook of Public Finance provides a definitive source, reference, and text for the field of public finance. In 18 chapters it surveys the state of the art - the tradition and breadth of the field but also its current status and recent developments. The Handbook's intellectual foundation...