Journal of Economic Studies: Volume 33 Issue 3

Approaches of the Austrian School to the Soziale Frage before World War I – Wieser and Böhm‐Bawerk

Günther Chaloupek

The paper aims to provide an overview of the Austrian School's approaches to the social question before World War I.

A reexamination of welfare states from an institutional perspective

Norio Sasaki

To explain a fiscal rule that functions in a different way from a constitutional ideal of a welfare state, as Japan's case, and to give a literary examination of that kind of…

The intellectual foundations of the social market economy: Theory, policy, and implications for European integration

Alexander Ebner

This paper suggests that an adequate understanding of the notion of the social market economy, which has become a prominent aspect of debates on the social model of the European…

The social question and fundamental principles of modern market economics – there is more agreement than contradiction: The case of von Schmoller's labour question

Hans Frambach

In view of current catchwords like globalisation, internationalisation and flexible markets, it should be remembered that many of the fundamental economic positions which are…

Guest editor's introduction

Jürgen Backhaus