The paper is dedicated to the study of the process of gender analysis of public spending allocated by the Government to the needs of the ordinary citizens. This must be applied in the form of regular payments or allowances, which will not contain discrimination by first of all, gender,...

The social policies directed at the labor market were established in the 50s and 60s on an environment of international economic stability and predictable growth. Then came the long oil crisis of the 70s and the world economy has entered into recession. Since then the European economy has...

The purpose of this article is to develop an ordonomic conceptualization of corporate citizenship and new governance that (a) provides a framework for positively explaining the political participation of companies in new governance processes and (b) does not weaken but instead strengthens the...

The idea that all types of economic freedom - including limited government - promote prosperity is challenged by the fact that some countries successfully combine a large public sector with high taxes and otherwise high levels of economic freedom. To explain the co-existence of economic freedom...

Dieser Beitrag enthält drei Kurzartikel. Der erste behandelt die Wirtschaftspolitik, der zweite die Soziale Sicherung. Der dritte skizziert den Ansatz der Ökonomischen Ethik, ein Forschungsprogramm, das in jüngster Zeit auch unter der Bezeichnung "Ordonomik" vorangetrieben wird. Eingerahmt...

Drawing from the formal setting of the optimal tax theory (Mirrlees 1971), the paper identifies the level of Rawlsianism of some European social planners starting from the observation of real data and redistribution systems and uses it to build a metric that allows measuring the degree of...

Fast zwanzig Jahre nach der deutschen Wiedervereinigung gibt es immer noch erhebliche regionale Einkommensunterschiede zwischen West- und Ostdeutschland. Der Artikel soll zeigen, wie die Transferzahlungen des Staates diese Einkommensdisparitäten ausgleichen. In einem ersten Schritt untersuchen...