To their credit, empirical legal scholars try to live up to the highest methodological standards from the social sciences. But these standards do not always match the legal research question. This paper focuses on normative legal argument based on empirical evidence. Whether there is a normative...

Vincent Ostrom's legacy is revisited in this paper along three dimensions: Ostrom's contributions as a historian of politico-economic thought, as a complexity theorist, and as an epistemologist. All three dimensions are captured from a perspective which has seldom been studied systematically...

Dieser Beitrag bestimmt den systematischen Ort der Zivilgesellschaft aus der Perspektive einer ökonomischen Theorie der Moral: Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen können als "Corporate Citizens" durch genuine Eigenbeiträge an einer gesellschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit zum wechselseitigen...

Der Artikel entwickelt in Auseinandersetzung mit Alfred Krupps Wohlfahrtsprogramm aus dem 19. Jahrhundert einen ordonomischen Beitrag zum strategischen Risikomanagement. Die These lautet, dass Unternehmen 'Moral als Produktionsfaktor' einsetzen können, wenn es ihnen gelingt, mit Hilfe...

Der entwicklungsökonomische Diskurs ist aktuell geprägt durch eine kontroverse Debatte zwischen Jeffrey Sachs und William Easterly. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert beide Ansätze aus ordonomischer Perspektive. Er argumentiert, dass eine auf Kooperation angelegte Semantik vergleichsweise besser...

The standard tool for analysing social dilemmas is game theory. They are reconstructed as prisoner dilemma games. This is helpful for understanding the incentive structure. Yet this analysis is based on the classic homo oeconomicus assumptions. In many real world dilemma situations, these...

This chapter discusses essential elements of an economic analysis regarding the socio-economic implications of intellectual property (IP). The aim is to help scholars from various disciplines interested in the economic reasoning behind IP for creative industries to recognize logically consistent...

Water is vital for supporting life and welfare. Worldwide, water resources are under high pressure and freshwater ecosystems have been degraded and even lost. These pressures are likely to be aggravated by climate change. To tackle ecosystem service degradation and loss, Payment for Ecosystem...

The recent economic crisis compels us to think how to avoid other future disasters. Since averting misconducts is more cost-effective than punishing them - due to the global social costs and the difficulties of restoring damages when the social harm has already occurred - regulation and legal...

Climate cooperation increasingly looks like individuals reaching out beyond traditional interactions to expand new networks, work with others to spot patterns, and take initiative to learn new complex systems; adapt these shared insights into new solutions; develop empathy, patience, and...