The economics profession appears to have been unaware of the long build-up to the current worldwide financial crisis and to have significantly underestimated its dimensions once it started to unfold. In our view, this lack of understanding is due to a misallocation of research efforts in...

In this essay I compare two different theoretical frameworks in economics for orienting analysis of issues in technology policy. One is a neoclassical framework that sees appropriate policies as dealing with 'market failures'. The other framework is provided by an evolutionary and institutional...

The notion of Gross National Happiness (GNH) presents a radical paradigm shift in development economics and social theory. GNH can be regarded as the Buddhist equivalent to Gross National Product (GNP), which is the conventional indicator for a nation’s economic performance. But GNH can also be...

Zeitpräferenzen sind von zentraler Bedeutung für intertemporale Entscheidungsmodelle. In den meisten ökonomischen Modellen werden Zeitpräferenzen jedoch mit exponential discounting gleichgesetzt. Der erste Teil der vorliegenden Arbeit bespricht eine axiomatische Herleitung von...