Das Jahr 1961 markiert einen Wendepunkt in der deutschsprachigen Sozialpolitiklehre: Das Werk "Ökonomische Theorie der Sozialpolitik", das Elisabeth Liefmann-Keil zu diesem Zeitpunkt veröffentlichte, wurde als Ereignis für die wissenschaftliche Sozialpolitik (Zöllner 1962: 215) und als...

What has become known as the Freiburg School or the Ordo-liberal School was founded in the 1930s at the University of Freiburg in Germany by economist Walter Eucken (1891-1950) and two jurists, Franz Böhm (1895-1977) and Hans Großmann-Doerth (1894-1944). Freiburg University's "Fakultät für...

"Soziale Marktwirtschaft" (Social Market Economy) is the economic order that was established in Western Germany after 1945. It is not a precisely outlined theoretical system but more a cipher for a "mélange" of socio-political ideas for a free and socially just society and some general rules of...

Getting a tenured position in economics in Germany is viewed as a random outcome where the probability of tenure depends on the quantity and quality of publications, age and years since PhD. We measure publications both in units of Top 5 journals and in units of the European Economic Review...