Suppose an agency awards a fixed number of prizes to applicants in different categories such that the applicant-to-winner ratio is constant by category. It is demonstrated in a simple theoretical model that the number of awards in a category will typically be positively related to the degree of...

The notion of networks is frequently used by social science scholars in order to explain various forms of social and economic linkages. In this Working Paper, I question why it is that we have replaced older notions of sociality such as culture, community, or group with network, and what the...

The paper discusses measurement, primarily in economics, from both analytical and historical perspectives. The historical section traces the commitment to ordinalism on the part of economic theorists from the doctrinal disputes between classical economics and marginalism, through the struggle of...

Der Ökonom Thomas Schelling, Nobelpreisträger des Jahres 2005, hat ein beeindruckendes Gesamtwerk verfasst. Die von ihm behandelten Themen sind im weiteren Sinne institutionenökonomischer Natur. Sie reichen von militärstrategischen Fragen über Phänomene gelingenden oder misslingenden...

Ähnlich wie Niklas Luhmann entwickelt auch Douglass Norths ökonomische Geschichtstheorie eine spezifische Diagnose der Moderne. Das vorliegende Korreferat diskutiert in fünf Schritten, zu welchen Fragen sich das (ordonomische) Rational- Choice-Programm von einer solchen Diagnose der Moderne...