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Mit der Gründung der Zeitschrift The Journal of Law and Economics im Jahr 1958 hatte sich die neuere ›ökonomische Theorie des Rechts‹ endgültig als Spezialdisziplin etabliert. Im gleichen Jahr schloss sich Ronald Coase der University of Virginia, UVA, Charlottesville an (bis 1964). Am dortigen Economics Department wirkte bereits (seit 1956) James M...
The greatest risks of Covid-19 are not arising from its direct effects on morbidity and mortality but from exaggerated aspirations to control such effects politically. A swift transformation from an epidemic to an endemic state of affairs may in case of a disease with comparatively low and unequally distributed mortality like covid-19 be an option,...
Classifying accounts of institutionalized social norms that rely on individual rule-following as ‘sociological’ and accounts based on individual opportunity-seeking behavior as ‘economic’, the paper rejects purely economic accounts on theoretical grounds. Explaining the realworkings of institutionalized social norms and social order exclusively in...
Violence and Social Orders reminds economists that the free markets of Western open-access societies that extend “stability of possession, its transference by consent and the execution of promises” to large numbers of citizens are political institutions. In a world in which the use of violence in furthering the interests of particular groups is alw...
Government by unanimous consent, following discussion, seems an attractive vision because it renders coercion legitimate (on one reading of coercion) or avoids coercion entirely (on another reading).
The increasingly wide spread use of RCM, rational choice modeling, and RCT, rational choice theory, in disciplines like economics, law, ethics, psychology, sociology, political science, management facilitates interdisciplinary exchange. This is a great achievement. Yet it nurtures the hope that a unified account of rational (inter-)active choice ma...
A universalist conception of immigration, assuming that all humans have a fundamental ethical right to equal consideration (Brücker), is contrasted with a particularist ethical conception that restricts equal consideration to members of a given community (Osterloh/Frey). It is argued that within the limits of Robbinsian economics only a communitari...
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management is a research-led business school accredited by EQUIS and AACSB International. Frankfurt School offers educational programmes covering financial, economic and management subjects, including Bachelor and Master degrees, various MBAs and a Ph.D. programme, executive education, certified courses of study, open...
Libertarian views on rights tend to rule out coercive redistribution for purposes of public health care guarantees, whereas liberal conceptions support coercive funding of potentially unlimited access to medical services in the name of medical needs. Taking the "priority of liberty" seriously as supreme political value, a plausible prudential argum...
The article transfers an argument of Pattanaik and Xu on ranking opportunity sets to tragic choices and the so called numbers problem. We characterize conditions that make the numbers count. This in itself will not resolve any problem relevant to the ongoing ethical debate but should shed some fresh light on it by forcing participants to state spec...
Standardized and transparent priority setting in medicine, desirable as it is, will generally exacerbate inter-temporal equity problems arising from changes in treatment priorities: when can it be fair that the treatment of already waiting patients who would have had priority under an established system should be postponed (withheld) for an extende...
Die Transplantationsmedizin wird von uns als paradigmatisches Beispiel verwendet, um allgemeine Probleme der Priorisierung
und Rationierung in der Medizin konkret zu illustrieren. Wir beschränken uns dabei im Wesentlichen auf die Nierentransplantation.
Zum einen handelt es sich bei der Niere um das bei weitem häufigste Organtransplantat. Zum andere...
Drei Exponenten der Wirtschaftsethik nehmen zu vier Fragen Stellung: Wie kann die Philosophie zur Lösung der Wirtschaftskrise beitragen? War es wirklich (nur) die Gier, de dazu geführt hat, oder steht eine problematische Denkweise dahinter' Kann hier eine Wirtschafts-, eine Unternehmensethik etwas beitragen? Ein "Kapitalismus der Verantwortung" (Da...
In assessing the benefits of health services it is presumed that the relationship of cause and effect can be determined by scientific methods. In general, the randomized controlled trial (RCT) is considered the gold standard for the generation of scientific evidence. Yet there is an increasing amount of data indicating that not in all situations RC...
In assessing the benefits of health services it is presumed that the relationship of cause and effect can be determined by scientific methods. In general, the randomized controlled trial (RCT) is considered the gold standard for the generation of scientific evidence. Yet there is an increasing amount of data indicating that not in all situations RC...
There is an ever increasing shortage of human organ transplants in Germany. This paper aims at understanding the reasons for that shortage better and then discusses various ways to overcome it. After estimating the potential supply of donor organs it is discussed why actual supply remains far below potential supply. Insufficient reimbursement for h...
The paper explores some of the surprisingly many relations between theories of public choice and political philosophy. Focusing on variants of Homo oeconomicus it does so systematically rather than historically. But it factors in the history of the two disciplines along with some recent developments in (experimental) economics. This sheds new light...
The taming of power, the establishment of individual rights and rule of law in domestic affairs are the greatest achievements of the West. But it is not clear whether the West can survive in the international Hobbesian power game if its public opinion conceives power generally as an evil to be controlled rather than as a good to be acquired. This p...
Everywhere in the advanced world the organization of organ transplantation is regarded as a "natural" object of government intervention and regulation. Across the board what could be done relying on spontaneous order and self-governance under subsidiaric state action is put under public control. The comparative institutional analysis of this paper...
"The Crisis of the Welfare State" has become a fashionable topic for research projects, academic conferences and political debates in recent decades. A quarter of a century after the emergence of the so-called "health-care cost explosion", there is a widespread belief that in the issue of health care financing the worst times are still ahead of us....
This Festschrift was "presented" in electronic form to Buchanan on the occasion of his eightieth birthday on October 3, 1999, after dinner in Fairfax, Virginia. As one might have expected, the response to our call for papers was vo luminous. In looking over the many contributions, we felt that a "published" Festschrift was also possible and fittin...
Traducción de: Moralische Institutionen: Empiristische Theorien ihrer Evolution
Traducción de: Untersuchugen uber die begdbarkeit staatsphilosophischer legitimitatskriterien
