In the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. Rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using panel data covering more than 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce...

In der Londoner U-Bahn warnen die Worte "Mind the gap!" vor der Lücke zwischen Bahn und Bahnsteigkante. Auch die Diskrepanz zwischen Sozialstruktur und Semantik kann zum Stolperstein werden. Wenn Semantiken ihre Passgenauigkeit verlieren und den gesellschaftlichen Diskurs mit Kategorien...

This paper argues that the perspective of ordonomic - a rational-choice based analysis of (interdependencies between) social structure and semantics - can provide new insights into the changing role of business in society. We claim (a) that the proper role of business is societal value creation,...

From a 1996 survey comparing the views of economists and ordinary voters, Bryan Caplan deduces several biases - anti-market, anti-foreign, pessimistic, and makework biases - to support his thesis that voters are rationally irrational, i.e., that, aware of the inconsequentiality of their votes,...