Politisch mag es nicht korrekt sein, nach der Zukunft des Euro zu fragen. Wissenschaftlich ist diese Frage nach Ansicht von Stefan Homburg, Universität Hannover, aber berechtigt, weil Zweifel am Bestand der Eurozone zunehmen und die aktuelle Entwicklung dunkle Reminiszenzen an das Vorfeld...

Was the 18th century a time period of gradual market integration? Or did the wars, famines, and criminality drive central European markets away from each other? We perform cointegration tests between four German and three Polish cities for rye markets in the 18th century, plus selected tests...

"Before industrialization, traditional communities - families, local neighborhoods, and religious groups - were meant to safeguard their members from risks like poverty. As the transition into industrialization produced new risks or generalized previously limited risks, this fallback system...

Ökonomen neigen dazu, Wohlstand in erster Linie anhand von ökonomischen Kennziffern, so z. B. dem Pro-Kopf-Bruttoinlandsprodukt oder dem Lohn je Arbeitnehmer zu messen. Eine umfassendere Herangehensweise ist die Analyse der Lebenszufriedenheit, welche neben ökonomischen auch...

"Before industrialization, traditional communities - families, local neighborhoods, and religious groups - were meant to safeguard their members from risks like poverty. As the transition into industrialization produced new risks or generalized previously limited risks, this fallback system...

This is the first German language collection of essays by Viktor J. Vanberg, one of the most important advocates of modern constitutional economics. The essays deal with fundamental theoretical and normative issues of economic and political order. (Published in German.)

In diesem Beitrag wird die Frage nach der Nutzung verständigungsorientierter Verfahren in der Agrarpolitik am Beispiel von Online-Foren unter dem Aspekt handlungsleitender Konzepte der Akteure diskutiert. In den diskursanalytischen Arbeiten der vergangenen Jahre wurde deutlich, dass der Dialog...

Libertarian paternalism justifies government intervention in private transactions with the irrationality of the choices made by the citizens involved. The legitimacy of these interventions is based on the condition that the citizen's freedom of choice is to be respected. Based on a description...