Power and responsibility interdisciplinary perspectives for the 21st century in honor of Manfred J. Holler /

Written by leading scholars from various disciplines, this book presents current research on topics such as public choice, game theory, and political economy. It features contributions on fundamental, methodological, and empirical issues around the concepts of power and responsibility that strive to...

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Other Authors: Holler, Manfred Joseph, 1946-, Leroch, Martin A.,, Rupp, Florian, 1978-, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham : Springer, 2023.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Instead of an introduction - Manfred on his 75th Birthday (Heinz Kurz)
  • Part I. Economics and Philosophy
  • Chapter 2. Three Types of Dramatic Irony (Timo Airaksinen)
  • Chapter 3. Defence is of Much More Importance than Opulence: Adam Smith on the Political Economy of War (Heinz Kurz)
  • Part II. Labor Economics
  • Chapter 4. Relative Absence Concerns, Positional Consumption Preferences and Working Hours (Laszlo Goerke)
  • Chapter 5. Power, Responsibility and Social Policy: The Impact of Basic Income in a Competitive Experimental Labor Market (Veera Jokipalo)
  • Part III. Voting and Voting Power
  • Chapter 6. Computing the Public Good index for weighted voting games with precoalitions using dynamic programming (Jochen Staudacher)
  • Chapter 7. The Art and Beauty of Voting Power (Sascha Kurz)
  • Chapter 8. An application of power indices for the family of weighted majority games in partition function form (Jos Alonso Meijide)
  • Chapter 9. Measuring Voting Power in Complex Shareholding Structures: a Public Good Index Approach (Izabella Stach).