I Schumpeter in our Time -- Schumpeter and the Economic Problems of Today -- II Entrepreneurship -- Schumpeter’s Entrepreneur in Modem Economic Theory -- Is Entrepreneurship Obsolescent? -- Must Monopoly Power Accompany Innovation? -- III Cycles and Crises -- What to do About Business Cycles?...

This book contains 15 selected and revised papers presented at a conference in Neresheim, West Germany, in June 1986. Prof. H.W. Sinn writes in his introduction to the book: "The common topic is measurement of welfare, both from efficiency and from equity perspectives. For many economists,...

This paper investigates the impact of preferences for male offspring to female offspring upon the sex ratio of the population. Asymmetric procreation behavior of this kind is modelled by assuming that a female's procreation ceases only after at least one son or "n" daughters are born. It is...

Introduction: Measuring Tax Progression -- Theories: Local Measures -- Global Measures -- Uniform Measures -- Applications: Data and Fiscal Institutions of the Surveyed Countries -- Numerical Results -- Statistical Tests -- Progression Intensity

The transfer principle requires inequality measures to decrease for mean preserving contractions. How much leakage of transfers can preserve inequality? Conditions are shown for leaky transfers to preserve inequality. We find that positive remainders with positive or negative leakage as well as...

This paper investigates distributive justice using a fourfold experimental design: The ignorance and the risk scenarios are combined with the self-concern and the umpire modes. We study behavioral switches between self-concern and umpire mode and investigate the goodness of ten standards of...

Peer review influences decisively personal advancement, research opportunities, salaries, grant-funding, promotion, and tenure. It claims to exert quality control of manuscripts and improve them, to promote innovative research, foster dissemination of new research, and to serve as a means to...