Gegenstand dieses Aufsatzes sind die fundamentalen Probleme liberaler Argumente in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Anders als dies die Zyklen in der Dogmengeschichte nahelegen, erweist sich die gegenwärtige Krise des Wirtschaftsliberalismus dabei nicht als eine vorübergehende „Rezession“,...

Proponents of liberal economic policies in the financial market often refer to the moral and economic authority of Adam Smith, the founder of economics as a science, to add weight to their recommendations. They think, they can do so, because Adam Smith is in these circles considered a prominent...

The aim of the article is to present different facets of those movements that have been opposed to European Union in France since the early 90’s. Our purpose is not to describe the historical development of these movements, but to present their doctrines as well as the various alternatives...

Ergänzend zu den Beiträgen im ifo Schnelldienst Nr. 2/2014 äußern sich Christoph M. Schmidt, RWI und Sachverständigenrat und Benjamin Weigert, Sachverständigenrat, zu den Koalitionsvereinbarungen. Ihrer Ansicht nach vernachlässigt die Wirtschaftspolitik die Frage, wie die...

The relationship between economy and democracy has always been fraught with conflict in the modernity. It is difficult to use the legal system to democratize economic behaviour without restricting efficiency. The volume explores this problematic relationship from the perspective of history,...

This volume documents the papers given at the symposium on 'Freiburg Economists and the Resistance', which was held in July 2004, 60 years after the plot to assassinate Hitler, and which dealt with the role Freiburg economists played in the resistance against the Nazi-Regime in the surrounding...