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Jean-Baptiste Fleury/ Alain Marciano: The Making of a Constitutionalist: James Buchanan on Education

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This article studies the few works James Buchanan wrote on education from the end of the 1950s to the early 1970s. These neglected works tell us important things about how Buchanan’s ideas on constitutions evolved through time, because they provided Buchanan with the opportunity to apply his ideas about constitutions and, in return, nurture his… Read more »

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Alain Marciano: Ronald H. Coase (1910-2013)

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The purpose of this chapter is to link Ronald Coase’s methodological approach to what he ‘learned’ when he was at the London School of Economics (LSE) from Edwin Cannan and Arnold Plant. The main lesson Coase taught us and insisted upon was that economics should not be too ‘abstract’ and should not rely on a… Read more »

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Jean-Baptiste Fleury/ Alain Marciano: The Sound of Silence. A Review Essay of Nancy Maclean’s Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America

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This essay reviews Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, which triggered a huge controversy that virally spread on the internet and in various journals. We will evaluate MacLean’s almost biographical account of James Buchanan, which portrays the 1986 Nobel Prize laureate as the mastermind behind… Read more »

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Alain Marciano/ Giovanni Battista Ramello: Encyclopedia of Law and Economics

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Law and Economics deals with the economic analysis of legal relations, legal provisions, laws and regulations and is a research field which has a long tradition in economics. It was lost after the expulsion of some of the leading economists from Germany during 1933 to 1938, but then revived in Chicago.  Both the subject of… Read more »

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Christoph Lütge: The German Ethics Code for Automated and Connected Driving

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The ethics of autonomous cars and automated driving have been a subject of discussion in research for a number of years (cf. Lin 2015; Goodall in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2424:58–65, 2014; Goodall in IEEE Spectrum 53(6):28–58, 2016). As levels of automation progress, with partially automated driving already becoming standard… Read more »

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Berta van Schoor/ Christoph Lütge: Conditions of collective commitment in sector-specific coordinated governance initiatives

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Although both the problem of corruption and its detrimental effects on society, economy, and environment has widely been recognized, corruption remains one of the most challenging problems of today. In light of globalization, the exclusive focus on compliance-oriented measures such as sharpening laws seems to be more and more ineffective. Apparently, the problem is not… Read more »

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Hiroshi Kabashima/Shing-I. Lui/Christoph Lütge/Aurelio de Prada Garcia: The Idea of Justice in Literature

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The theme arises from the legal-academic movement „Law and Literature“. This newly developed field should aim at two major goals, first, to investigate the meaning of law in a social context by questioning how the characters appearing in literary works understand and behave themselves to the law (law in literature), and second, to find out… Read more »

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Christoph Lütge/ Matthias Uhl: Wirtschaftsethik

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Wirtschaftsethik gewinnt auch in den Lehrplänen deutscher Hochschulen zunehmend an Bedeutung. Hinter diesem schillernden Begriff verbirgt sich allerdings eine Fülle immer schwieriger zu überblickender, teils eher heterogener Konzepte. Das vorliegende Lehrbuch möchte Studierenden und allen an Wirtschaftsethik Interessierten Orientierung in diesem theoretischen „Dschungel“ bieten. Daher legen die Autoren Wert darauf, wirtschaftsethische Konzepte in einem Gesamtzusammenhang… Read more »

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