This research work is intended to analyze the economic consequences and ethical challenges that are caused by the coronavirus pandemic and to predict whether one can find a balance within the arising conflict of interest between economy, health and ethics. The solution strategies of Germany,...

Angesichts der aktuellen Gasnotlage sind alle Verbraucher aufgefordert ihre Gasnachfrage zu reduzieren. Als wirksamster Anreiz zur Einsparung gelten hohe Preise. Doch viele Haushalte spüren das volle Ausmaß der Preisanstiege an den Gasmärkten aufgrund bestehender Verträge erst mit deutlicher...

Despite widespread claims by economists that humans have unlimited economic wants, evidence for this psychological claim is sparse. Here we focus on a common interpretation of unlimited wants as insatiable – unfulfilled wants persist even at higher incomes because new wants always emerge to...