Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Arbeiten von Jon Elster zum Problem lokaler Gerechtigkeit. Das Thema dieser Arbeiten sind Rationierungsentscheidungen. Es geht um die Allokation und Distribution knapper Zuteilungsgüter, also etwa um die Vergabe von Kindergarten- oder Studienplätzen, die Zuweisung...

A growing body of literature suggests that political factors are one of the major causes of environmental damage in developing countries endowed with a relative abundance of renewable resources. This has prompted calls for the use of trade sanctions to encourage sustainable resource management...

Recent evidence suggests that special interest groups significantly affect tropical deforestation through lobbying. We develop an open-economy model in which resource conversion is determined by a self-interested government that is susceptible to the influences of the political contributions it...

Regulatory arbitrage — defined as the manipulation of regulatory treatment for the purpose of reducing regulatory costs or increasing statutory earnings — is often seen in heavily-regulated industries. An increase in the regulatory nature of copyright, coupled with rapid technological...

Welfare economics—the normative branch of economics—is a consequentialist moral theory. Unlike deontological morality, at least in its basic form it attributes no intrinsic value to prohibitions on active or intentional harming of other people, lying, or promise breaking, and does not allow...

Economic analysis of law is a powerful analytical methodology. However, as a purely consequentialist approach, which determines the desirability of acts and rules solely by assessing the goodness of their outcomes, standard cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is normatively objectionable. Thus, for...

Economic analysis of law is a powerful analytical methodology. At the same time, as a purely consequentialist approach, which determines the desirability of acts and rules solely by assessing the goodness of their outcomes, standard cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is normatively objectionable. This...

In their recent seminal work, Kaplow and Shavell demonstrate that any metric for policy evaluation that takes into account factors other than individual welfare is Pareto-inefficient; in particular, they argue at length that notions of fairness - insofar as they do not directly contribute to...

In this paper I examine a number of economic arguments for the legal regulation of morality. Firstly, I present the harm principle as it was famously defined by John Stuart Mill, not only as a principle for a liberal objective criminal law but as a guiding principle for political liberalism. I...

A number of concepts from economic theory have been used to defend legal paternalism and legal moralism. In this paper I discuss the concept of moral externalities, i.e., of negative externalities of a behavior that is considered immoral by conventional morality. According to some economists the...