Die Dissertation widmet sich ausführlich der Konjunkturtheorie. Dabei wird insbesondere die Frage diskutiert, welche Rolle Eigenheiten des Verhaltens der eine Volkswirtschaft bevölkernden Akteure - speziell solche, die im Kontrast zu verbreiteten Rationalitätsstandard stehen und stattdessen...

Humanomics in business ethics / Deirdre N. McCloskey -- Introduction / Eugene Heath and Byron Kaldis -- Wealth and commerce in archaic Greece: Homer and Hesiod / Mark S. Peacock -- Aristotle and business: friend or foe? / Fred D. Miller, Jr -- Confucian business ethics: possibilities and...

Altersarmut, Bildungsunterschiede, eine wachsende Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich - die deutsche Gesellschaft spaltet sich und viele Menschen rufen nach sozialer Gerechtigkeit. Die Autorin untersucht, wie sich das Verständnis von sozialer Gerechtigkeit in Philosophie und Politik gewandelt hat, und...

This paper discusses the works of Joseph Schumpeter and Richard Goodwin using the common perspective that both were theoretical mavericks of mainstream economic theory development in the 20th century. In particular the fact that their activities overlapped during their cooperation at Harvard...

This paper considers economists’ treatment of problems related to the environment prior to the establishment of environmental economics as a separate field in the 1960s. In discussing the literature from the late 18th century onwards, it looks on the one hand for awareness in the work of the...

"Little is known of Antonio Serra except that he wrote his extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes that Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail, and that he died there soon afterwards. However the contribution this work made represents a...

Machine generated contents note: Prologue: a discussion without end, and the nature of this inquiry; 1. The great man and the beginning of contemporary discourse; 2. More who than do and the trait vs. behavior debate; 3. Whistling in the dark and the insertion of power between followers and...

The discovery of productivity -- Managing and measuring productivity -- The Dominion Bureau of Statistics -- The National Productivity Council -- the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency -- The decline of productivity?

We have learned a great deal about taxation and development over the last half-century. However, we still have much to learn. Even the best research answers to particular questions have usually turned out to be extremely difficult to apply in practice. Over the past fifty years what might be...

In der Ökonomik tritt der zirkuläre "unechte" Fortschritt auf, der sich z.B. vom kumulativen, besonders für die Naturwissenschaften charakteristischen Fortschritt abgrenzt. Die Ideen- bzw. Dogmengeschichte kann somit eine wertvolle Erkenntnisquelle sein. In diesem Papier wird das Konzept der...

Bruce Yandle’s personal remembrance of Gordon Tullock, an intellectual giant whose passion for knowledge and understanding knew no boundaries, may be gone, but he will not be forgotten. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Gordon Tullock’s impact as a scholar was far broader than his own research because he was an initiator of new fields of research rather than one who modestly extended pre-existing pastures. His import as founding editor of Public Choice, as an ambassador for public choice, and as a teacher,...