Zeitpräferenzen sind von zentraler Bedeutung für intertemporale Entscheidungsmodelle. In den meisten ökonomischen Modellen werden Zeitpräferenzen jedoch mit exponential discounting gleichgesetzt. Der erste Teil der vorliegenden Arbeit bespricht eine axiomatische Herleitung von...

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In their 1963 classic Scarcity and Growth Howard Barnett and Chandler Morse argued that resource scarcity did not threaten economic growth. A second investigation in the late 1970s, Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered, reached largely the same conclusion. The 25 years since that work was published...

Innovation is novelty - it involves doing new things in new ways. So new products, new processes, new organizational methods, new services, and so on, are all part of innovation. Technological innovation transforms and improves the technical attributes and performance characteristics of products...

The representative firm has been a much-criticized concept, subject to conflicting interpretations with respect to both its configuration and its intended role in Marshall's Principles (the Principles).2 The concept found itself a focal point of much of the debate during the significant cost...