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Prices
What does our safety cost? Good care? Mobility? Hardly anything comes for free; our society is based on exchange and performance. What everyone gets is usually regulated by prices. Prices determine who can afford what. And if certain goods - such as education - are not to be valued in monetary terms, other mechanisms of value assessment must be found.
The September issue of WZB-Mitteilungen is devoted to the value we assign to things, conditions and services. Not only economists can contribute to the topic of "prices", but all those who deal with questions of distribution in society.
What’s the price of freedom?
Starting from considerations of whether liberal freedom has a price, Michael Zürn turns in his essay to two much-discussed theoretical models of freedom: positive and negative freedom. What does the liberal understanding of freedom mean for liberal thinking in times of climate change? What are its implications for the political practice of liberal democratic societies?
Der Preis der Großzügigkeit
Einzelne Erfahrungen deuten darauf hin, dass wir eher bereit sind, jemandem eine helfende Hand zu reichen, als Geld zu schenken. Aber warum ist das so? Max Peukert hat mit der Ökonomin Hande Erkut gesprochen, die der unterschiedlich ausgeprägten Bereitschaft zu helfen auf den Grund gegangen ist.
