Die fortwährende gesellschaftliche Debatte über die angeblich wachsende »Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich« ist höchst aktuell und durch das Buch Pikettys »Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert« befeuert worden. Verteilungsfragen – wer bekommt wovon und wieviel und warum – wurden in der...

The growing importance of nonmarket assets such as the environment, combined with the unprecedented availability of high-resolution data, has renewed broad interest in quantifying sustainability at different spatial levels. Policy-related decision making requires that potential sustainability...

Recent disputes over the epistemological nature of social science inquiry, often referred to as "Science Wars", display many of the hallmarks of a much older, largely forgotten quarrel in social science: The "Methodenstreit" of Economics -- pitting the Austrian School of Economics against the...

Regional scientists have developed numerous concepts and measures of economic diversity and diversification, primarily motivated by the desire to establish a relationship between diversity and economic performance. Rather than striving for a unified theory with a singular measure, this paper...