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A European social model of state-market relations: the ethics of competition from a neo-liberal perspective
No full textIn this paper I portray "neo-liberalism" in its original conceptual meaning as opposed to the generic term of depreciation as which it is commonly used. I identify fair competition and the denial of all privilege as the major concerns of original neo-liberals. Ethical merit for competition might, at first sight, be based on only two principles: individual natural rights (equal liberty) and socially desirable outcomes ("unintended altruism"). It was the neo-liberal idea to put fairness-norms or universally applicable rules of just behaviour between an unqualified "input-based" ethics and an unqualified "output-based" ethical consequentialism. The enforcement of such rules is a major obligation of the state. Today, the European Union assumes the role of "guardian" of competition. In a certain, but limited sense, neoliberalism, correctly understood, can be argued to be the one founding "European Social Model". However, beyond the realm of common, universalisable interests, competition amongst social-political models seems a preferable option for Europe. --Neo-liberalism,Ordo-liberalism,European Social Models,Ethics of Competition
Strategies of Flexible Integration and Enlargement of the European Union: a Club-theoretical and Constitutional Economics Perspective
No full textOur paper proceeds as follows: As a point of departure, part two highlights the heterogeneity among EU member states following the recent enlargement, while part three reviews three main alternative conceptions of flexible integration as they were discussed in political circles. Part four applies Buchanan's and Tullock's Calculus of Consent (1962) to the tension between deepening and widening the EU. Part five introduces basic elements of the economic theory of clubs, analyzes the notion of the EU as a club and examines flexible integration in a club-theoretical framework. Part six considers several alternative integration models in view of the conclusions of both club theory and constitutional economics, while part seven focuses more specifically on a club-of-clubs approach that we tend to favour as an ideal-type model for a European Union of the future. Part eight evaluates the relative weaknesses and strengths of flexible integration according to the club-of-clubs approach and part nine advocates some further institutional recommendations before part ten concludes. --
The Philosophy of Social Market Economy: Michel Foucault's Analysis of Ordoliberalism
No full textMichel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France in 1978–1979 centered on the analysis of power with regard to liberalism. Foucault especially focused on German ordoliberalism and its specific governmentality. Although Foucault’s review of the ordoliberal texts, programs, and books is very faithful, there are some occasional “schematic” simplifications. Our paper will evaluate Foucault’s constitution of an ordoliberal “archive”, though more emphasis will be put on the general importance of the phenomenological orientation in Walter Eucken’s work. Hence, three tasks will guide our paper: first, an analysis of Foucault’s position; second, the phenomenological foundation of the ordoliberal discourse compared to the 18th century liberal discourse, i.e. the way in which Walter Eucken received Husserl. Third, our paper shall raise the subject of the mutual historical-epistemological complementation of philosophy and economics by taking Foucault’s analysis as the starting point. Furthermore, the consequences of a phenomenological, “eidetic” order of the economy will be discussed, focusing mainly on the expansion of competition in social domains. --Foucault,Husserl,Eucken,ordoliberalism,eidetic order of the market,social market economy
News from the Nordic Africa Institute : No. 3, October 2004
No full textContents: To Our Readers / Lennart Wohlgemuth -- Commentaries: Perspectives on the crisis in Darfur / Øystein H. Rolandsen -- The US and EU – Undermining regional economic integration in Africa / Margaret C. Lee -- Challenges to regional integration: The case of SADC / Henning Melber -- Research: Poverty and prosperity in contemporary African Christianity / Päivi Hasu -- State recuperation, resource mobilisation and conflict / Lars Buur -- Governance, culture and resistance in Zimbabwe / Björn Lindgren -- Banda’s hegemony in Malawi: Politics in song and dance / Reuben M. Chirambo -- Researching young Africans: An emerging field among Nordic scholars / Catrine Christiansen -- Conference reports: Conferences and meetings -- Report from conference on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights -- Publishing: Recent publications</p
Publikationen in Gold-Open-Access-Journalen auf globaler und europäischer Ebene sowie in Forschungsorganisationen
No full textWohlgemuth M, Rimmert C, Taubert NC. Publikationen in Gold-Open-Access-Journalen auf globaler und europäischer Ebene sowie in Forschungsorganisationen. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld; 2017
A characterisation of the Hoffman-Wohlgemuth surfaces in terms of their symmetries
No full textFor an embedded singly periodic minimal surface (M) over tilde with genus rho >= 4 and annular ends, some weak symmetry hypotheses imply its congruence with one of the Hoffman-Wohlgemuth examples. We give a very geometrical proof of this fact, along which they come out many valuable clues for the understanding of these surfaces
Consumer welfare, total welfare and economic freedom: on the normative foundations of competition policy
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Book reviews
No full textIlden og lyset (Knut M. Hansson & Herman Kahan, 1988) is reviewed by Karl-Johan Illman.Lege for livet. En bok om Leo Eitinger – medmennesket (Magne Skjæraasen, 1988) is reviewed by Karl-Johan Illman.The documents of the Lodz ghetto: an inventory of the Nachman Zonabend collection (comp. Marek Web, 1988) is reviewed by Hilde Rohlén-Wohlgemuth
Markets vs. Government when Rationality is Unequally Bounded: Some Consequences of Cognitive Inequalities for Theory and Policy
No full textRecognizing that human rationality has bounds that are unequal across individuals entails treating it as a special scarce resource, tied to individuals and used for deciding on its own uses. This causes a meta-mathematical difficulty to the axiomatic theories of human capital and resource allocation, and raises a new problem for comparative institutional analysis, allowing it to explain some so far little understood differences between markets and government. The policy implications strengthen the case against national planning, selective industrial policies, and government ownership of enterprises, but weaken the case against paternalism. --Rationality,meta-mathematics,institutions,markets,government
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