Abstract Contrary to the conventional view that rationing is tantamount to „withholding“ rationing must be understood as a process of „giving“ at „prices“ below the recipients’ willingness or ability to pay at the moment of assignment. Rationing is neither throughout a „bad“...

Summary There is an increasing shortage of human organ transplants in Germany. This paper aims at understanding the reasons for that shortage and discusses various ways to alleviate it by changing the rules of donation and procurement. In particular we consider creating adequate incentives for...

This paper focuses on the uneasy alliance of rational choice and evolutionary explanations in modern economics. While direct evolutionary explanations rule out "purposeful" rational choice by assuming "zero-intelligence" and pure rational choice explanations leave no room for "selective"...