Demographic change and the financial difficulties in the social security systems this has caused have led to a public discussion focusing on the issue of intergenerational justice. In addition to the fundamental empirical and philosophical issues, the contributors to this volume analyze...

The continuing discussion about the future of the social market economy is producing new headlines daily with detailed suggestions for the restructuring of our economic and socio-political system. A fundamental conceptional analysis of this subject has however not been done up to the present....

Using the original texts, this collection of essays provides an introduction to the Freiburg tradition of constitutional economics. The texts chosen convey the central meaning and the positions of this tradition. Each individual text has been provided with a detailed introduction and a...