Der UN Global Compact hat sich das Ziel gesetzt, die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung von Unternehmen zu fördern. Die Partnerschaft zwischen den Vereinten Nationen und Unternehmen versteht sich vornehmlich als Lernplattform, welche Unternehmen nutzen können, um sich über Maßnahmen zu ihrer...

In den 1980er-Jahren konzentrierten sich Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs) auf politisches Engagement mit dem Ziel, neue Gesetze zu erwirken. ĆSeither hat nicht nur die Anzahl international agierender NGOs zugenommen, sondern ihr Engagement lenkt die öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit direkt auf...

Economists have played a powerful role in shaping modern Australia. Drawing on my experience as an academic economist and an economic policymaker, I outline ten principles to guide economists seeking to maximise their impact. These are to (1) Focus on wellbeing, not just dollars; (2) Think...

Can a court system conceivably control opportunistic behavior if judges are selected from the same population as ordinary citizens and thus are no better than the rest of us? This paper provides a new and, as we claim, quite profound rational choice answer to that unsolved riddle. Adopting an...

We study the political opinions of Swedish social scientists in seven disciplines. A survey was sent to 4,301 academics at 25 colleges and universities, which makes the coverage of the disciplines included more or less comprehensive. When it comes to party sympathies there are 1.3 academics on...

The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...

Billions of dollars are allocated every year to university research. Increased specialisation and international integration of research and researchers has sharply raised the need for comparisons of performance across fields, institutions and individual researchers. However, there is still no...

This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well being. Based on a survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields on individual life satisfaction. Controling for personal...