Anläßlich der 65. Wiederkehr des Geburtstages von Theodor Siegel und mit herzlichen Wünschen für seine künftige Schaffenskraft ehren mit ihm Forschende eine herausragende Persönlichkeit innerhalb ihrer wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft durch eine Festschrift, die in vielfältiger Hinsicht...

This essay consists of a press release and letter to Congress making the case for including the “Billionaires Income Tax” (BIT) in the final Build Back Better (BBB) legislation now before the U.S. Senate. Though the BIT was not included in the Build Back Better Act passed by the House of...

Economists praise the efficiency of the price mechanism in allocating scarce resources. Others, however, often reject it as unfair. In this study, we investigate the extent to which economists also differ from non-economists in how they value the fairness of the price system, and examine how...

In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...