Auflistung FB 02 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften nach Publikationstyp "article"
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Conduct and Contract
(2013)Political philosophy relies on three alternative types of theory to explain social order. The first, is order anarchy, built on the system of spontaneous Humean conventions. They are equilibria, self-enforcing or enforced ... -
Consent as the Foundation of Political Authority - A Lockean Perspective
(2014)The article focuses on the justification provided by classical contract theory for the right of states to enact laws and the corresponding obligation of political allegiance. At first the distinction between political ... -
Contractarianism as a Broad Church
(2013)I defend the claim, made in a previous paper, that `a Humean can be a contractarian', against the criticisms of Anthony de Jasay. Jasay makes a categorical distinction between `ordered anarchy' (which he associates with ... -
Critical Thinking and Legal Culture
(2009)We often lack clear procedures for assessing statements and arguments advanced in everyday conversations, political campaigns, advertisements, and the other multifarious uses to which ordinary language can be put. Critical ... -
Demokratie, Bürgersouveränität und Subsidiarität
(2009)The paper addresses the issue of how the notion of common or public weal can be specified for a democratic polity as a ,,cooperative venture for mutual advantage" (Rawls). It is argued that common weal in democratic politics ... -
Dignity, Human Rights, and Democracy
(2009)In order to analyze what can plausibly be said about the relationship between dignity, human rights, and democracy, I will propose a basic assumption about human dignity (I) and then formulate five theses concerning the ... -
Dismissals: A Case for Business Ethics!
(2009)A scenario of dismissal is used to illustrate a business ethical reflection that is guided by the method of reflective equilibrium. Several rules of dismissal are considered with respect to an already proved practice and ... -
Do Bankers Have Deviant Moral Attitudes? Negative Results from a Tentative Survey
(2015)Bankers have a reputation for deviating from standard morals. It is an open question, though, if this claim can be substantiated. Here, it is tested directly if bankers respond differently to moral dilemmas. Evaluations ... -
Do Self-Committers Mind Other-Imposed Commitment? An Experiment on Weak Paternalism
(2011)This experiment investigates whether protégés judge paternalism by means of its consequences or on principled grounds. Subjects receive a payment for showing up early the next morning. The later they show up the less they ... -
Die dualistische Metaphysik von Jürgen Habermas
(2009)In contrast to traditional philosophy, Habermas does not view his ‘postmetaphysical thought’ as a conception of reality that claims to be true. Actually, however, his ‘postmetaphysical thought’ is a metaphysical dualism, ... -
Economists Have No Clothes
(2009)Why have economists had so little meaningful to say about the 2008 crises? Where and when did the `science' get off the track? Can anything be done to restore respectability to Economics as a useful area of inquiry? This ... -
Empirical Economic Model Discovery and Theory Evaluation
(2011)Economies are so high dimensional and non-constant that many features of models cannot be derived by prior reasoning, intrinsically involving empirical discovery and requiring theory evaluation. Despite important differences, ... -
Expanding the Nudge: Designing Choice Contexts and Choice Contents
(2014)To nudge is to design choice contexts in order to improve choice outcomes. Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein emphatically endorse nudging but reject more restrictive means. In contrast, I argue that the behavioral psychology ... -
External Validity and the New Inductivism in Experimental Economics
(2013)The idea of external validity, which is well-known in the social sciences, has recently also been emphasized in experimental economics. It has been argued that external validity is an important criterion in experimental ... -
Fairness That Money Can Buy. Procedural Egalitarianism in Practice
(2013)Contrary to communitarian market criticism institutions relying on money and bidding can strengthen faculties of `self-governance'. Securing procedurally egalitarian bidding on the basis of declared monetary evaluations ... -
Foundational Issues in Statistical Modeling: Statistical Model Specification and Validation
(2011)Statistical model specification and validation raise crucial foundational problems whose pertinent resolution holds the key to learning from data by securing the reliability of frequentist inference. The paper questions ... -
Health Care Rationing and Distributive Justice
(2009)The rapid progress in medical technology makes it unavoidable to ration health care. In the discussion how to ration many people claim that principles of justice in distributing scarce resources should be applied. In this ...