The growth of the democratic welfare state has been accompanied by significant restrictions on individual liberty, raising doubts about the sustainability of the ideals of liberalism in democratic polities. The principal claim of this paper is that, adequately understood, liberalism and...

Der Begriff Neoliberalismus ist angesichts der Finanzkrise in Misskredit geraten. Aber was bedeutet eigentlich Neoliberalismus? Viktor J. Vanberg, Walter Eucken Institut, Freiburg, definiert Ordnungstheorie als das wirtschafts- und rechtswissenschaftliche Forschungsprogramm der Freiburger Schule...

The claim that the Darwinian paradigm of blind-variation-and-selective-retention can be generalized from the biological to the socio-cultural realm has often been questioned because of the critical role played by human purposeful design in the process of cultural evolution. In light of the issue...