In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...

In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...

Economists praise the efficiency of the price mechanism in allocating scarce resources. Others, however, often reject it as unfair. In this study, we investigate the extent to which economists also differ from non-economists in how they value the fairness of the price system, and examine how...

Diese Arbeit untersucht, inwiefern es im Zuge fortschreitender Öffnung der Güter- und Faktormärkte für nationale Regierungen möglich ist bzw. möglich bleibt, der Wirtschaftspolitik einen ideologisch motivierten Stempel aufzudrücken. Dafür wird zunächst der Begriff der Ideologie für das...