Posts Tagged Ökonomie
Amartya Sen über die ökonomische Krise und eine Rückbesinnung auf Adam Smith und Arthur Pigou
Posted by Björn in Ökonomie, Liberalismus, Politik, Politische Philosophie, Psychologie on 2009/03/24
Amartya Sen hat in der New York Review of Books einen erfreulich klaren, analytischen Artikel über die Bewertung der aktuellen ökonomischen Krise und die erforderlichen intellektuellen Konsequenzen geschrieben: Capitalism Beyond the Crisis.
It is hard to ignore the fact that today, in addition to the Keynesian effects of mutually reinforced decline, we are strongly in the presence of “errors of…undue pessimism.” …
Despite huge injections of fresh liquidity into the American and European economies, largely from the government, the banks and financial institutions have until now remained unwilling to unfreeze the credit market. …
One of the problems that the Obama administration has to deal with is that the real crisis, arising from financial mismanagement and other transgressions, has become many times magnified by a psychological collapse. …
The present economic crises do not, I would argue, call for a “new capitalism,” but they do demand a new understanding of older ideas, such as those of Smith and, nearer our time, of Pigou, many of which have been sadly neglected.
Der Nachteil von Patenten und Urheberrechten
Posted by Björn in Ökonomie, Ethik, Persönlichkeitsrechte, Politische Philosophie, Rechte, Sozialphilosophie on 2008/08/13
James Surowieckis Besprechung von Michael Hellers Buch “The Gridlock Economy“_
“In the second decade of the twentieth century, it was almost impossible to build an airplane in the United States. That was the result of a chaotic legal battle among the dozens of companies—including one owned by Orville Wright—that held patents on the various components that made a plane go. No one could manufacture aircraft without fear of being hauled into court. …
The situation that grounded the U.S. aircraft industry is an example of what the Columbia law professor Michael Heller, in his new book, “The Gridlock Economy,” calls the “anticommons.” …
The commons leads to overuse and destruction; the anticommons leads to underuse and waste. …”
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Hat ökonomische Ungleichheit ihre Wurzeln in Erziehung und Bildung?
Posted by Björn in Ökonomie, Sozialphilosophie, Soziologie, Wirtschaftsethik on 2008/03/28
“America’s inequality problem — and I mean the stagnation at the lower end, not the hedge funds guys at the top — does indeed seem to stem from dysfunctional families and bad education” [Marginal Revolution]
Milton Friedman in China
Posted by Björn in Ökonomie, Leute, Sozialphilosophie on 2007/03/26
Bertrand Horwitz ergänzt in der NYRB Paul Krugmans Aufzählung der Dinge, mit denen sich Milton Friedman beschäftigt hat. So hat Friedman die chinesische Regierung in den Zeiten nach Mao offenbar zweimal in kritischen ökonomischen Phasen beraten. Und er hat die “negative Einkommenssteuer” propagiert: Familien, die unter eine bestimmte Einkommensgrenze fallen, sollten Schecks zur freien Verfügung erhalten.
