How do norms evolve when people have no choice to opt-out of social interactions? One example of such a setting is prison. Past research usually relies on ethnographic work to understand the emergence and maintenance of norms among prisoners. In their new paper, Chad W. Seagren and NOUS member David Read more…
Check out this special issue of the Cosmos + Taxis journal on Scott Schealls book “F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics”. It features interesting contributions from NOUS members Peter Boettke, Eric Schliesser, Erwin Dekker and Roger Koppl. The full issue is available for free online.
In his latest Policy White Paper, NOUS member Otmar Issing assesses several main elements of ECB’s upcoming review of its monetary policy strategy, announced in January 2020. Four aspects of the review are discussed in detail: i) ECB’s definition of price stability and the arguments for and against inflation targeting; Read more…
In his new paper, NOUS member Erwin Dekker analyzes the reasons why Jan Tinbergen was initially hostile to European integration, which he regarded as a poor substitute for an international order. His conviction had three important sources. First his coming of age in The Hague, a government city in a Read more…
Contribution payments and information are two important channels of lobbying influence. In his paper, Andreas Polk analyzes what is known about these channels in Germany from a political economy perspective. Based on a discussion of the empirical literature and the available data, he argues that the state of empirical knowledge Read more…
When implementing health care reforms the pace of change is often lacking behind the expectations of policymakers. In their latest research, NOUS member Alexander Braun, Eva Krczal, and Arleta Franczukowska explore in-depth the experiences of a primary care initiative from the perspective of general practitioners. The physicians’ perspectives on design Read more…
In their latest paper, NOUS member Nick Cowen and Rachela Colosi look at different regulatory approaches to regulate sex work and online platforms. The full paper is available here.
This piece is part of the special issue of the Journal of Contextual Economics: Schmoller’s Jahrbuch. Liberalism is losing ground, while populist or even authoritarian nationalist regimes are on the rise. This article argues that the causes of the decline are, at least partly, endogenous, that a narrow focus on Read more…