Was erwartet mich an der Hochschule? Werde ich den Anforderungen gerechtwerden können? Wie ist das in einer Vorlesung? Wie sind die Professoren?Wer studiert außer mir das Fach? Diese und weitere Fragen beschäftigen jedenStudienanfänger. Der Schritt von der Schule oder aus der beruflichen...

In pure population problems, a single resource is to be distributed equally among theagents in a society, and the social planner chooses population size(s) and per-capita consumption(s) for each resource constraint and set of feasible population sizes within thedomain of the solution...

Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? Weprovide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this resultclarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. Ifwe maximize total or...

Many economists and psychologists refuse the idea that behaviour could be based on any other motives than selfish and hedonistic ones, at least in the context of economy, mainly based on a methodological premise, not so often on empirical research. The corresponding image of man that is inherent...

Facing growing complexity and uncertainty of social and environmental contexts, e.g. globalisation, climate change, dynamics of markets of energy and resources, geopolitical security risks and conflicts as well as technological change, it is more important than ever to reflect today’s...

The three qualitative scenarios of Europe’s possible Energy Futures, which arepresented in this document, are based on the findings of the Europe-wide Delphi studyon Energy and Social Visions - EurEnDel. These results have been checked againstmultiple inputs from a considerable number of...

In the last two decades there has been a noticeable increase in published research inevolutionary economics. The idea that formal modelling is a sine qua non condition forestablishing a rigours and coherence scientific frame, has led to an over concern withformalization issues among evolutionary...

The goal of this paper is to provide an overview on the Virtual Laboratory infrastructurefor online economic experiments. We summarize our experience gainedfrom performing several economic experiments on the Internet. The experimentswe have run range from electronic markets to individual...

Gesellschaftstheoretiker wie der Soziologe Niklas Luhmann machen darauf aufmerksam,dass es in der modernen Gesellschaft zu systematischen Diskrepanzen zwischenSemantik und Sozialstruktur kommt. Solche Diskrepanzen – also Fälle, in denen Sozialstrukturund Semantik nicht zueinander passen –...