The European Fiscal Compact (FC) entered into force by 1 January, 2013 in 25 EU Member States. With the ratification the signatory countries commit significant parts of their budget to the European Commission and the European Court of Justice, which indicates a shift of power from legislative to...

The paper compares neoliberal market-fundamentalism and right-wing populism on the basis of its core patterns of thinking and reasoning. Hence we offer an analysis of the work of important founders of market-fundamental economic thinking (particularly von Mises) and an established definition of...

Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision-making would have benefits reaching far beyond the realm of the legal system narrowly understood. From an economic point of view, lay participation in judicial decision-making can...

Elinor Ostrom: Die Verfassung der Allmende. Jenseits von Staat und Markt. - Die englische Originalausgabe dieses vieldiskutierten Buches ist schon vor 20 Jahren unter dem Titel 'Governing the commons. The evolution of institutions for collective action' bei Cambridge University Press erschienen....

Phenomena like meat sharing in hunter-gatherers, altruistic self-sacrifice in intergroup conflicts, and contribution to the production of public goods in laboratory experiments have led to the development of numerous theories trying to explain human prosocial preferences and behavior. Many of...

Das Paper skizziert Überlegungen, die zur Gründung der Cusanus Hochschule geführt haben. Kritisch wurde insbesondere der Verlust des Humboldtschen Bildungsideals durch die Universitätsreformen im Zuge des 1999 ausgerufenen Bologna-Prozesses gesehen. Die Gründung der Cusanus Hochschule...