F. A. Hayek published The Road to Serfdom in 1944, so 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the event. The paper traces how Hayek came to write the book, who his opponents were, and how the book got interpreted by both friends and critics after its publication. Because the book is more typically...

As an immediate reaction to the recent financial crisis, it has been criticized that many economists are still acting as economic advisers for Ministries or the bureaucracy, although they have not been able to foresee the crisis . Academic economists still hold central positions in policy...

This paper addresses two broad questions. The first one relates to the economic rationale for the existence of the welfare state. To address this question, we review the marginalist arguments and then counterpose a historical and institutional analysis of the rise of the U.S. welfare state. The...

Altersarmut, Bildungsunterschiede, eine wachsende Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich - die deutsche Gesellschaft spaltet sich und viele Menschen rufen nach sozialer Gerechtigkeit. Die Autorin untersucht, wie sich das Verständnis von sozialer Gerechtigkeit in Philosophie und Politik gewandelt hat, und...

Altersarmut, Bildungsunterschiede, eine wachsende Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich – die deutsche Gesellschaft spaltet sich und viele Menschen rufen nach sozialer Gerechtigkeit. Die Autorin untersucht, wie sich das Verständnis von sozialer Gerechtigkeit in Philosophie und Politik gewandelt hat,...