Die Werke des amerikanischen Ökonomen und Nobelpreisträgers Gary S. Becker und des französischen Soziologen Pierre Bourdieu gehören zum Kanon sozialwissenschaftlicher Standard-Literatur. Die Konzeptionen sowie das politische Denken und Engagement beider Autoren weisen allerdings erhebliche...

Background: Preferences of both Alzheimer patients and their spouse caregivers are related to a willingness-to-pay (WTP) measure which is used to test for the presence of mutual (rather than conventional unilateral) altruism. Methods: Contingent valuation experiments were conducted in 2000 –...

Objectives: Preferences of both Alzheimer patients and their spouse caregivers are related to a willingness-to-pay (WTP) measure which is used to test for the presence of mutual (rather than the conventional one-way) altruism. Methods: Identical contingent valuation interviews were conducted in...