Angesichts der hohen Arbeitslosigkeit wird in der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Literatur die Frage diskutiert, inwieweit Lohnzurückhaltung auf Arbeitnehmerseite zu einer Beschäftigungsausweitung beitragen kann. Wie sind die zugrundeliegenden theoretischen Konzepte zu beurteilen?

This article proposes an alternative conceptualization of freedom of choice. The endeavour is motivated by the view that welfare comprises various capabilities (prominently among them freedom), which have to be measured and compared separately. Starting from a critical appraisal of recent work...

The paper examines whether interpersonal comparisons of utility have to be interpreted as positive, normative or value-laden. It suggests first that recent arguments advanced by John Davis which appeal to the functional role of utility comparisons neither suffice to characterise utility...

Some economists find markets everywhere and assume that they emerge spontaneously once a set of necessary conditions such as well-defined property rights is fulfilled. Others emphasise the role of organisations and contend that markets are actually less dominant. But despite claims to the...

This paper presents some of the background research that contributed to the discussions within the Inter-American Development Bank's policy and strategy regarding indigenous health issues. The paper's conceptual approach and good practice research helped focus the discussion on the importance of...

One influential approach to environmental problems holds that their solution requires the definition of full liberal property rights over goods that will enable their value to be registered in actual or hypothetical markets. How adequate is that solution? In this paper I offer reasons to be...

Problems of representation lie at the centre of recent experiments in deliberative democracy. The problems are not primarily social scientific questions concerning the statistical representiveness of small-scale deliberative institutions but normative questions about their political and ethical...