Dieses Buch ist eine Chronik und Bestandsaufnahme der Corona-Pandemie in Deutschland von Ihren Anfängen bis heute (Juli 2021). Die durch das Virus verursachte Krise offenbart schlaglichtartig die strukturellen Schwächen unseres Landes: Ein verordnungsorientierter Staatsapparat, ein...

Eating sugary food, drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes are legal activities. But politicians still use the law to discourage them. They raise their price, prohibit or limit their advertisement, restrict where they can be sold and consumed, and sometimes ban them outright. These politicians...

Main description: The general assumption that social policy should be utilitarian--that society should be organized to yield the greatest level of welfare--leads inexorably to increased government interventions. Historically, however, the science of economics has advocated limits to these...