Mit seinen Veröffentlichungen in den Medien, seinen RWI : Positionen und der Mitwirkung an der vom Bundesministerium der Wirtschaft und Technologie in Auftrag gegebenen Gemeinschaftsdiagnose hat das Institut nach Kräften dazu beizutragen versucht, auch außerhalb der engen Fachwelt Licht in...

Agency-based explanations of the great deprivation, contrasted with structure-based explanations, suffer not merely from the criticism of relying on irrational and irresponsible behavior of millions, including that of the most astute financial experts, but are also at a loss to explain why such...

Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To do this Rawls’ and Nozick’s perceptions of justice...