Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die wirtschafts- und unternehmensethischen Arbeiten von William Baumol und rekonstruiert seine ökonomische Erklärung für die spektakulären Wachstumserfolge westlicher Marktwirtschaften.

Dieser Beitrag wirft einen kritischen Blick auf die maßgeblich von Walter Eucken in den 1930er und 1940er Jahren ausgearbeitete ordnungspolitische Konzeption. Aus heutiger Sicht und insbesondere aus der Theorieperspektive des ordonomischen Forschungsprogramms werden zwei Defizite...

Dieser Beitrag entwickelt die These, dass die moderne Gesellschaft mit zwei grundlegenden Problemen konfrontiert ist: mit einer systemischen Kolonialisierung der Lebenswelt sowie – spiegelbildlich – mit einer lebensweltlichen Kolonialisierung des Systems. Zudem wird skizziert, wie sich beide...

In macroeconomic dynamic models the speed at which output converges to its steady state is of outstanding interest. Theoretical investigations usually focus on the asymptotic speed of convergence only. This procedure is, however, unnecessarily restrictive and hides important information. The...

Traditional resource economics has been criticised for assuming too high elasticities of substitution, not observing material balance principles and relying too much on planner solutions to obtain long-term growth. By analysing a multi-sector R&Dbased endogenous growth model with exhaustible...

A general growth model with explicit resource reallocation costs is set up. A new feature is the property of hysteresis (i.e. a continuum of stationary equilibria) in closed-economy growth models. Employing a linear model the hysteresis range and the consequences for the long-run growth rate are...

Women are commonly stereotyped as more risk averse than men in financial decision making. In this paper we examine whether this stereotype reflects actual differences in risk taking behavior by means of a laboratory experiment with monetary incentives. Gender differences in risk taking may be...

Integration a.ects economic growth mainly through two different channels : The scale-effect channel and the factor-reallocation channel. In order to investigate both channels within a unifying framework, we employ a simple descriptive growth model. The scale-effect channel increases either the...

We propose the relaxation algorithm as a simple and powerful method for simulating the transition process in growth models. This method has a number of important advantages: (1) It can easily deal with a wide range of dynamic systems including multi-dimensional systems with stable eigenvalues...

We analyse long-term consumption paths in a dynamic two-sector economy with overlapping generations. Each young generation saves for the retirement age, both with private savings and pension funds. The productivity of each sector can be raised by sector-specific research while the essential use...