Title:The Lure of Authority
Author(s):FEHR, ErnstDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LS;Abstract:Power and authority permeate political, social and economic life but still little is known empirically about the origins and consequences of authority. In this paper we tackle this question experimentally by implementing ...
Title:Governing America: the Emergence of Behavioral Law and Economics
Author(s):JOLLS, ChristineDate:2010Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:Bounded rationality is an important and pervasive characteristic of much human behavior. Legal policy under American President Barack Obama has been strongly influenced by behavioral economics' understanding of boundedly ...
Title:Natural Law and Personhood: Samuel Pufendorf on Social Explanation
Author(s):HAAKONSSEN, KnudDate:2010Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:Today the idea of natural law is generally considered a subject in ethics, politics and jurisprudence and concerned with the status of basic norms. During the last one and a half centuries natural law has come to be seen ...
Title:Ordering Pluralism
Author(s):DELMAS-MARTY, MireilleDate:2010Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:In the traditional legal culture, the expression of “ordering pluralism” is rather unusual. Pluralism implies differences, dispersion and fragmentation, whereas “legal order” leads us to think in terms of a unified structure. ...
Title:Does Trust have a History?
Author(s):FREVERT, UteDate:2009Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:Authors like Francis Fukuyama or Robert Putnam claim that modern societies suffer from a decline of
trust. On the other hand political scientists like Margaret Levi or Susan Stokes and sociologists like
Karen Cook contend ...
Title:Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary
Author(s):LEVINE, David K.Date:2009Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:Behavioral economics is an effort to bring psychological and emotional aspects of human behavior into economic theory. Critics of existing theory, including many psychologists and behavioral economists, poorly understand ...
Title:Between Surprise and Social Science
Author(s):MAIER, Charles S.Date:2009Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:Social scientists and historians have been living in a world of unexpected outcomes. The revival of
passionate political ideologies in the l960s, the reversal of predicted secularization in the modern
world, the collapse ...
Title:The Spirit of Capitalism: the Role of Executive Compensation in the Financial Crisis
Author(s):COOLEY, Thomas F.Date:2009Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:When economic disasters occur it is common to look to the managers of the economy and question the
decisions they made and the incentives that drove their decisions. In the financial crisis of 2007-2009
compensation was ...
Title:The Rise of Global Legalism
Author(s):POSNER, Eric ADate:2008Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MW LSAbstract:Global legalism is the view that world government is not a practicable approach to
global collective action problems but that these problems are nonetheless susceptible to
legal solutions. This position is paradoxical: ...
Title:Macroeconomic Policy, Evolution, and Self-Confirming Equilibrium
Author(s):SARGENT, Thomas J.Date:2008Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MWP LSAbstract:This paper uses policy disputes about centuries of experience with commodity money
systems and US monetary policy in the 1970s and 1980s to illustrate macroeconomists'
enduring struggles with Hume's induction problem and ...
Title:Self-Government in Our Times
Author(s):PRZEWORSKI, AdamDate:2008Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MW LSAbstract:The eighteenth century ideal of self-government of the people was based on an
assumption that renders it incoherent and unrealistic, namely, that interests and values
are sufficiently harmonious that each individual needs ...
Title:Fear Reverence Terror. Reading Hobbes Today
Author(s):GINZBURG, CarloDate:2008Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MW LSAbstract:Lecture Delivered February 13th 2008
Title:Global Warming and Climate Policies
Author(s):GUESNERIE, RogerDate:2008Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI MW LSAbstract:The paper starts reviewing some basics of the climate science and economics of the
greeenhouse effect. It stresses the nature and extent of uncertainty on both sides as well
as the political background of present climate ...