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    • A Governing Convention? 

      Vanderschraaf, Peter (2013)
      In this essay I argue that one can understand the relationship between those who rule and those who are ruled in civil society as an implicit contractual relationship or contract by convention. I use variations of the ...
    • A Stochastic Model of the Co-evolution of Networks and Strategies 

      Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Vogt, Bodo (2009)
      We consider a theoretical model of co-evolution of networks and strategies whose components are exclusively supported by experimental observations. We can show that a particular kind of sophisticated behavior (anticipatory ...
    • Affective Social Ties—Missing Link in Governance Theory 

      van Winden, Frans (2012)
      Although governance is about interpersonal relationships, it appears that the antecedents and consequences of affective bonds (social ties) in social groups dealing with commonpool resources and public goods have been ...
    • Anarchy, State, and Property 

      Lindblom, Lars (2014)
      The fundamental function of the state is safeguarding the safety of its citizens. The combination of Nozick's invisible hand explanation with his theory of justice implies that individuals can have full private property ...
    • ,Aus ökonomischer Sicht ...‘ 

      Lübbe, Weyma (2009)
      Economists, and notably health economists, very often add to their policy recommendations the formula ,from an economic point of view‘. The contribution starts by exploring what the message of this clause to non-economists ...
    • Automatic Actions: Challenging Causalism 

      Di Nucci, Ezio (2011)
      I argue that so-called automatic actions—routine performances that we successfully and effortlessly complete without thinking such as turning a door handle, downshifting to 4th gear, or lighting up a cigarette—pose a ...
    • Awards: A Disregarded Source of Motivation 

      Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne (2009)
      Awards are prevalent in all societies and at all times. So far, however, they have escaped the attention of economists. This paper presents a first analysis of awards, distinguishing them from purely monetary forms of ...
    • Bygones Are Bygones 

      Brennan, Geoffrey; Hamlin, Alan (2009)
      `Bygones are bygones' might seem to be an analytic truth, lacking any substantive content. Yet, economists think that, when they state that bygones are bygones, they are asserting something interesting and important. ...
    • Can a Humean Be a Contractarian? 

      Sugden, Robert (2009)
      In this paper I argue, contrary to Hartmut Kliemt, that it is possible to be both a Humean and, in James Buchanan's sense, a contractarian. Hume sees principles of justice and political allegiance not as actual or hypothetical ...
    • Children’s Rights with Endogenous Fertility 

      Taylor, Brad R. (2014)
      This paper uses hypothetical contractarianism to consider the value of children's rights laws as a means of protecting children. Laws protecting children from their parents have the unintended but predictable consequence ...
    • Coevolving Relationships between Political Science and Economics 

      Ostrom, Elinor (2012)
      During the last 50 years, at least four interdisciplinary developments have occurred at the boundaries of political science and economics that have affected the central questions that both political scientists and economists ...
    • Cognitive Limits and the Beginning of Life 

      Huster, Stefan (2009)
      The question which moral status the embryo has is of great practical significance because the possibility to justify a governmental prohibition of a set of important therapeutical and scientific measures depends on a special ...
    • Colin Mayer: Firm Commitment 

      Ziegler, Moritz (2014)
    • Commitment and Goals 

      Peacock, Mark (2013)
      In this Comment, I examine Christoph Hanisch's recent contribution to this journal. In commenting on Hanisch's essay, I offer an interpretation of Amartya Sen's notion of `commitment' which makes committed choices both ...
    • Commitments by Hostage Posting 

      Raub, Werner (2009)
      We survey research on incurring commitments by voluntary hostage posting as a mechanism of cooperation. The Trust Game is employed as a paradigmatic example of cooperation problems. We sketch a very simple game-theoretic ...
    • Conduct and Contract 

      de Jasay, Anthony (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 ...