"The market has both a coordination function and an incentive function. The first theorem of welfare economics is all about coordination; the principal-agent model is all about incentives. What is the relative importance of the market in carrying out these two functions? While there has been a...

The market has both a coordination function and an incentive function. The first theorem of welfare economics is all about coordination; the principal-agent model is all about incentives. What is the relative importance of the market in carrying out these two functions? While there has been a...

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, den empirisch gehaltlosen Charakter der modernen, neowalrasianischen Interpretation der 'unsichtbaren Hand' darzustellen und die bisher vernachl?ssigten Leistungen ausgew?hlter klassischer ?konomen zur Bestimmung dieser Metapher hervorzuheben. Anfangs-...