Der Beitrag bietet einen Überblick über die deutsche Wettbewerbsordnung vor dem Hintergrund der ökonomischen Wettbewerbstheorie. Ausgehend von den Aufgaben eines Wirtschaftssystems werden zunächst die Grundtypen von Wirtschaftssystemen gekennzeichnet. Danach werden die Grundprinzipien und...

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

The paper approaches the "market versus state" issue from the perspective of constitutional political economy, a research program that has been advanced as a principal alternative to traditional welfare economics and its perspective on the relation between market and state. Constitutional...

A large market economy has a huge number of degrees of freedom with weak microlevel coordination. The 'implicit microfoundations' approach assumes this property of micro-level interactions more strongly conditions macro-level outcomes compared to the precise details of individual choice...