Ökonomie, Moral und Geschichte

For newcomers to economics, extensive theoretical foundations sometimes block the view on important social and economic issues. In this volume, Alfons J. Weichenrieder offers an alternative approach by focusing on questions of a fundamental, sometimes philosophical nature. Does money make you happy? What are reasonable criteria for economic policy? Does studying economics make you more selfish? How do morality and economics interact? What motivates people to pay taxes? How did financial and economic crises come about? By addressing these questions, the enormous breadth of economics becomes clear at an early stage of the study program. The book is also aimed at students whose secondary subject is economics as well as those without prior knowledge seeking easy access to economic thinking.