Due to the shadow of the future, exchange and the division of labor can be self-organizing on a small scale while it seems impossible for large interaction systems. The paper indicates that the survival conditions for trustworthiness can be met even in large interaction systems and large markets...

According to common wisdom, collective and in particular democratic decision-making attenuates the shadow of the future. The authors illustrate collective ways of extending time horizons that are inaccessible for individuals. They propose a coalitional structure (specifically an age distribution...

In a setting in which the provision of a collective good is at stake the "principle of generality as equal treatment" is related to the concept of "envy free net trades". This leads to an operational formulation of the fundamental liberal aim of non-discriminatory politics in terms of stated...