[Conclusion] The principal aim of this paper is one of conceptual and theoretical clarification. Its purpose is to draw attention to the distinction between governments' functions as territorial enterprises and as club-enterprises, a distinction that tends to be ignored in contributions to the...

Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge überbrücken eine Zeitspanne von drei Jahrzehnten im wissenschaftlichen Wirken Walter Euckens, von seiner 1921 gehaltenen Antrittsvorlesung "Zur Würdigung Saint Simons" bis zum letzten von ihm verfassten Beitrag "Unser Zeitalter der Misserfolge", den...

The university of Freiburg is known as home of the ordo-liberal Freiburg School (Vanberg 1998), a research tradition that was founded in the 1930s by a group of economists and jurists who shared the conviction that a properly functioning market order needs to be framed by appropriate rules, that...

[Einleitung ...] In meinem Beitrag möchte ich die Frage nach den Gründen, die für oder gegen eine stärker subsidiär-polyzentrische und wettbewerbliche Organisation föderaler Systeme sprechen mögen, unter zwei Gesichtspunkten erörtern. Zunächst wird es mir darum gehen, zu klären,...

The long-standing critique of the 'economic model of man' has gained new impetus not least due to the broadening research in behavioral and experimental economics. Many of the critics have focused on the apparent difficulty of traditional rational choice theory to account for the role of moral...

The theoretical consistency and practical applicability of traditional welfare economics has long been subject to controversy. More recently the challenge has been added from evolutionary approaches that the individual preferences on which the welfare calculus is based are themselves subject to...

The growth of the democratic welfare state has been accompanied by significant restrictions on individual liberty, raising doubts about the sustainability of the ideals of liberalism in democratic polities. The principal claim of this paper is that, adequately understood, liberalism and...

In Franz Böhms Konzept der Privatrechtsgesellschaft als einer Gesellschaft von "Gleichfreien und Gleichberechtigten" (Böhm 1980b: 140) bündeln sich in prägnanter Weise die theoretischen und politischen Kernvorstellungen des rechts- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschungsprogramms der...