Ist das Geld am Ende? Wohl eher nein. Am Ende dagegen erscheint die Art, wie Geld bisher erklärt und gehandhabt wurde. Genau diesem Anliegen widmet sich Walter Schmidt. Sein Buch bietet Anregungen für andere Sichten und Handlungsoptionen für Preis und Geld.Schmidt will durch eine gezielte...

Scholars since Hume and Smith have debated possible causal connections between market experiences and moral beliefs. Here, I study the impact of market interactions on utilitarian versus deontological values, other-regarding preferences, and charitable donations. Through a labor market...

The economic crisis has brought a new situation also for the Hungarian economic policy, as neoliberalism as the main trend in economic thought is no longer valid. This phenomenon cannot be reduced to be a mere macroeconomic course shift, as an entire economic philosophy and approach has lost its...

The hermeneutical Austrians wanted to provide (1) a philosophically sound justification for the contention that praxeology is a science of meaning and (2) justification for an approach to empirical/historical work that favors ethnographic methods. This article argues that had the hermeneutical...

The informal institutional structure embraces the social norms and moral values of a particular society and together with the formal institutional frame they compose the social environment. Social norms and values, congealed into customary rules of behaviour, provide a stable and enduring...

This paper analyses the hypothesis that the robust relationship between trust - as measured by the World Values Survey's question "In general, do you think that most people can be trusted, or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?" - and economic growth, established by empirical...

Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of a trust game experiment, we show that individuals extrapolate from their own type when forming...