Who was listening before the Financial Crisis of 2008 to Arrow's warnings and the teachings of Coase? Due to transaction costs, incomplete foresight and bounded rationality not all risks that would be desirable to shift can be shifted through the market. Financial firms and other institutions...

Vor 200 Jahren hat einer der Gründungsväter der modernen Volkswirtschaftslehre, David Ricardo, in seinem Buch Principles of Political Economy and Taxation die Theorie der komparativen Vorteile vorgestellt. Vom Abbau von Handelsbarrieren profitieren alle Länder, sogar die, die im Vergleich zu...