Recent technological advancements associated with Industry 4.0 are driving a paradigm shift within economic and social spheres. In a business context, these changes are altering the roles, responsibilities and skill requirements of professionals in a wide variety of fields. A key area that is...

This paper explores the outcome of an international environmental agreement when the governments are elected by their citizens. It also considers a voter's incentives for supporting candidates who are less green than she is. In the extreme case of 'global' pollution, the elected politicians pay...

Einleitung -- Gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit -- Effizienzorientierte Begründungen für Umverteilung -- Effizienzgründe für die Existenz einer Sozialversicherung -- Rentenversicherung -- Kranken- und Pflegeversicherung -- Arbeitslosenversicherung und Grundsicherung -- Familienpolitik --...

This paper considers endogenous coalition formations and endogenous technology choices in a model of private provision of global public goods. We show that the possibility of future interstate (partial) coordination may hinder the current adoption of better technology by a country outside the...

Undiscounted utilitarianism as a criterion of intergeneration justice has been questioned for different reasons: It has been argued (1) that any complete ordering of allocations with an infinite number of generations guaranteeing an optimal allocation must involve discounting, and (2) that...

We consider the Hartwick rule for capital accumulation and resource depletion, provide semantic clarifications and investigate whether this rule indicates sustainability and requires substitutability between manmade and natural capital. In addition to shedding light on the meaning of the...

In dem Band diskutieren die Autoren normative Begründungen für staatliche Umverteilungsmaßnahmen und für die Existenz einer verpflichtenden Sozialversicherung. Dabei werden Gerechtigkeits- und vor allem Effizienzkriterien zugrunde gelegt. Sie analysieren die einzelnen Elemente des sozialen...