The article presents an empirical study of the legitimation of the market economy in the public sphere and examines whether criticism of the market economy has increased as a result of the euro crisis. The research results support the hypothesis of a transformation of the legitimacy basis for...

Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and the general absence of...

Die wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Krise in der Bundesrepublik wird nicht „am runden Tisch" auf höchster Ebene überwunden. Hier einigt man sich allenfalls auf den „kleinsten gemeinsamen Nenner". Nötig ist eine tiefgreifende institutionelle Reform. Beim Urteil über institutionelle...

The paper approaches the "market versus state" issue from the perspective of constitutional political economy, a research program that has been advanced as a principal alternative to traditional welfare economics and its perspective on the relation between market and state. Constitutional...