Der Aufsatz behandelt konzeptionelle Überlegungen und begriffliche Klärungen für eine Studie zum „ehrbaren Kaufmann“ im Wirtschaftsleben des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ausgehend von einem historisierten Verständnis der Zivilgesellschaft werden die normativen Präferenzen der historischen Akteure...

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases citizens' support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy relies on the restriction of the sample to...

The concept of trust has recently been rediscovered, especially in the fields of economic sociology and organization theory. Nevertheless, the actual functioning of trust in markets has only been understood incompletely up to now. As this paper argues, one reason for this is that...