In den Jahren 1939 und 1940 erschienen kurz nacheinander zwei Hauptwerke der theoretischen Nationalökonomie: Joseph Schumpeters 'Business Cycles' und Walter Euckens 'Grundlagen der Nationalökonomie'. Während Schumpeter (1883-1950) in den 'Business Cycles' seine Theorie der wirtschaftlichen...

1908 war der junge Schumpeter überzeugt, mit der persönlichen Energie, dem effort, eine soziologische Grundeigenschaft entdeckt zu haben, die es gestattet, die Wirtschaftsentwicklung erstmals wirtschaftstheoretisch zu fassen. 1911 legte er diese vom 'Energieprinzip' mitstrukturierte Theorie...

Amiel et al. (1999) use the Atkinson and the Gini social welfare functions to measure income inequality attitudes based on data from leaky-bucket experiments. Yet the experimental de-sign does not allow their subjects to perceive income inequality according to the Gini or the Atkinson inequality...

Leaky-bucket transactions can be regarded as a generalization of the transfer principle allowing for transaction costs. In its most rudimentary form, leaky-bucket transactions trace out the maximum leakage of transaction costs such that a transfer still pays at the margin. Yet - to pay at the...

Using an experiment with material incentives, this paper investigates the violation of Lorenz relations in the case of dominant and single-crossing Lorenz curves. Our experimental design consists of two treatments: an income distribution treatment and a lottery treatment. Both treatments were...

Leaky-bucket transactions can be regarded as income transfers allowing for transaction costs. In its most rudimentary form, leaky-bucket transactions trace out the maximum "leakage" of transaction costs before income inequality is exacerbated, or before a welfare loss is experienced. This notion...

Deutschland leidet unter einer zu hohen marginalen Abgabenbelastung. Investitionen und Arbeitsplätze wandern in Niedrigsteuerländer und in Länder mit niedrigen Arbeitskosten [das heißt, in Länder mit niedrigen Löhnen und/oder niedrigen lohnbezogenen Abgaben] ab. Im Inland selbst führt die...

An income inequality measure satisfies the Pigou-Dalton transfer principle if progressive transfers decrease income inequality. When transfers cause transaction costs, one can trace out the maximum leakage such that the transfer pays at the margin. An income inequality measure is leaky-bucket...

This paper provides a comparative experimental study of risky prospects (lotteries) and income distributions. The experimental design consisted of multi-outcome lotteries and n-dimensional income distributions arranged in the shapes of ten distributions which were judged in terms of ratings and...

This paper investigates distributive justice using a fourfold experimental design : The ignorance and the risk scenarios are combined with the self-concern and the umpire modes. We study behavioral switches between self-concern and umpire mode and investigate the goodness of ten standards of...