Anzeige der Dokumente 1-20 von 33

    • 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 ...
    • ,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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Critical Thinking and Legal Culture 

      Pincione, Guido (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 

      Vanberg, Viktor J. (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 

      Garzón Valdés, Ernesto (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! 

      Hahn, Susanne (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 ...
    • Die dualistische Metaphysik von Jürgen Habermas 

      Albert, Hans (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 

      Buchanan, James M. (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 ...
    • Health Care Rationing and Distributive Justice 

      Breyer, Friedrich (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 ...
    • How to Safeguard Subsidiarity and Competition in the European Union 

      Bernholz, Peter (2009)
      The assignment of rights to as low political levels as possible recommends itself because preferences of citizens are better known at the communal, provincial or state level, because their influence is greater, political ...
    • Hypothetical Justifications 

      Lahno, Bernd (2009)
      A basic conviction in moral non-cognitivism is: only hypothetical norms may be justified. Hartmut Kliemt argues for a moderate variant: there are only hypothetical justifications of norms whether the norms are hypothetical ...
    • If Not Only Numbers Count: Allocation of Equal Chances 

      Ahlert, Marlies (2009)
      It is assumed that medical guidelines specify the appropriate amount of a divisible good which each individual should receive. Individual requirements and probabilities that the treatment is successful if an appropriate ...
    • Individual Interest and Political Legitimacy 

      Dietrich, Frank (2009)
      Criticism of contract theory has always played an important role in Hartmut Kliemt's writings on political philosophy. Notwithstanding his objections to a consent-based justification of the state he has never subscribed ...
    • Introduction: The Moral Science Project 

      Baurmann, Michael; Lahno, Bernd (2009)
    • Meinungsbildung in Gruppen 

      Hegselmann, Rainer (2009)
      The article describes a radically simplifying model of opinion formation processes. The model abstracts away almost everything. A very common reaction to such an approach is the objection that important factors are not ...