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After a short description of some positions which reject the principle of value freedom and after a short specification of what is meant with this principle, first the relation between the genesis of a scientific statement and its validity is discussed. There, we also tackle the problem of...
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Um zu zeigen, dass wirtschaftliche Aktivitäten dem Gemeinwohl dienen, wird als normative Referenz im allgemeinen das Pareto-Kriterium verwendet. Dieses lässt sich auch in begrenztem Rahmen zur Rechtfertigung politischer Entscheidungen nutzen. Damit solche Entscheidungen getroffen werden...
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Many European countries entertain considerable active labour market policies (ALMP) to increase the reemployment chances of the unemployed. Since policies are very costly the pressure for scientific evaluations of the single programmes that are part of the ALMP increases. This paper surveys...
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The active labour market policies in Switzerland and Germany are compared. German and Swiss labour market policies have similar aims, instruments and experienced similar institutional reforms. In Switzerland, an informative administrative database for an evaluation of these policies was made...
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Is the economic and financial crisis also a crisis of Economics? From different perspectives, today there is rather harsh criticism of Economics as a Social Science. In this paper, first, some of the recent failures of Economics are discussed. Then some of the criticisms are taken up that are...
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Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht der Versuch, anhand von einfachen Rechenbeispielen Transparenz in die Frage der steuerlichen Auswirkungen des Bankgeheimnisses auf die internationale Staatengemeinschaft zu bringen. Diese stilisierten Beispiele können leicht verfeinert werden, um die Kalküle von...
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There is a basic tension between the principle of democracy and the rule of law. This becomes obvious whenever the Swiss citizens accept an initiative that is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights. First, we discuss the traditions behind these two principles before we survey...
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Ökonomen sehen Armut in aller Regel als strukturelles Problem und versuchen, sie mit Wirtschaftswachstum zu überwinden. Nach einer Diskussion verschiedener Armutskonzepte wird daher zunächst auf die Wachstumsproblematik eingegangen und gezeigt, weshalb es Sinn macht, Armut mit strukturellen...
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