This paper, based on the introductory remarks made at the two-day conference on “The State of the Economy, the State of the World,” is an idiosyncratic stocktaking of the trajectory of economics from Adam Smith to contemporary times, with special attention to the rise of development...

Das Themenspektrum der empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung ist breit gefächert. Nicht nur die Wirtschaftstheorie, sondern auch die Ökonometrie und Wirtschaftsstatistik spielen eine zentrale Rolle. Die Festschrift für Professor Ullrich Heilemann versammelt dazu 30 Fachaufsätze anerkannter...

An evolutionary perspective on economic behavior has to account for the influences that thehuman genetic endowment has on the choices the agents make. Likely to have been fixed intimes of fierce selection pressure, this endowment is presumably adapted to the livingconditions of early humans. If...

I discuss the role of economic theory in empirical work in development economics with special emphasis on general equilibrium and political economy considerations. I argue that economic theory plays (should play) a central role in formulating models, estimates of which can be used for...