"Before industrialization, traditional communities - families, local neighborhoods, and religious groups - were meant to safeguard their members from risks like poverty. As the transition into industrialization produced new risks or generalized previously limited risks, this fallback system...

In diesem Beitrag wird die Frage nach der Nutzung verständigungsorientierter Verfahren in der Agrarpolitik am Beispiel von Online-Foren unter dem Aspekt handlungsleitender Konzepte der Akteure diskutiert. In den diskursanalytischen Arbeiten der vergangenen Jahre wurde deutlich, dass der Dialog...

Libertarian paternalism justifies government intervention in private transactions with the irrationality of the choices made by the citizens involved. The legitimacy of these interventions is based on the condition that the citizen's freedom of choice is to be respected. Based on a description...

"Before industrialization, traditional communities - families, local neighborhoods, and religious groups - were meant to safeguard their members from risks like poverty. As the transition into industrialization produced new risks or generalized previously limited risks, this fallback system...

This is the first German language collection of essays by Viktor J. Vanberg, one of the most important advocates of modern constitutional economics. The essays deal with fundamental theoretical and normative issues of economic and political order. (Published in German.)

Forschungsethik wird in den deutschsprachigen Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften zunehmend zum Thema. Zum einen reflektieren empirisch Forschende vermehrt ethische Fragen, die sich in ihrer Forschungspraxis stellen. Zum anderen wird auf wissenschaftspolitischer Ebene diskutiert, Ethics Reviews,...

11 hypotheses from agency theory, transaction cost analysis, and Ouchi's theoretical approach on the impact of environmental, Company and salespeople characteristics on the design of salesforce control systems (outcome- vs. behavior-based) are summarized and tested on a data set of 270 German...