1. Vorspann: Wie viele von Ihnen wissen werden, bin ich von Hause aus Soziologe. All meine akademischen Abschlüsse, Diplom, Promotion und Habilitation, habe ich in diesem Fach erworben. Und Sie werden auch wissen, dass ich in den vergangenen dreizehn Jahren hier in Freiburg den Lehrstuhl...

Der amerikanische Historiker Francis Fukuyama veröffentlichte 1992 ein vielbeachtetes Buch mit dem Titel Das Ende der Geschichte. Die These seines Buches war, dass sich mit dem Ende des kalten Krieges eine allgemeine Verbreitung der Demokratie als politische Verfassung und der Marktwirtschaft...

The growth of the democratic welfare state has been accompanied by significant restrictions on individual liberty, raising doubts about the sustainability of the ideals of liberalism in democratic polities. The principal claim of this paper is that, adequately understood, liberalism and...

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...

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...

The methodological individualism and subjectivism of the Austrian tradition in economics is often associated with a methodological dualism, i.e. the claim that the nature of its subject matter, namely purposeful and intentional human action, requires economics to adopt a methodology that is...

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