Christoph Engel - Böcker

Human behaviour is infinitely complex, the result of thousands of interactions between predispositions, external factors and physical and cognitive processes. It is also highly unpredictable, which makes meaningful social engagement difficult without the aid of some external framework such as that offered by an institution. Both formal and informal institutions can provide the element of predictability necessary for successful, complex interactions, a factor which is often overlooked by institutional analysts and designers. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines including psychology, economics, and sociological and political studies, this book develops a coherent and accessible theory for explaining the unpredictability of individual behaviour. The author then highlights the danger of institutional reforms undermining the very capacity to generate predictability which is so central to their success. This book will appeal to academics, researchers and professionals in many fields including management studies, behavioural economics and the new, interdisciplinary field of institutional design.

This volume brings together academic economists and lawyers to evaluate and compare the regulation of telecommunications markets in Germany and the United States. The unifying theme in all of the papers is that the goal of public policy in this area should be to make the broadest and most functional competition possible by means of an appropriate regulatory framework. Because the European and American telecommunications markets are becoming more intertwined each day, the issues addressed in this volume should be topical to the business, government, and academic communities. The publication of these papers should make important research accessible to a broad audience on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, enrich the public discussion, and thereby contribute to the continuing development of public policy in the dynamic area of telecommunications.

Human behaviour is infinitely complex, the result of thousands of interactions between predispositions, external factors and physical and cognitive processes. It is also highly unpredictable, which makes meaningful social engagement difficult without the aid of some external framework such as that offered by an institution. Both formal and informal institutions can provide the element of predictability necessary for successful, complex interactions, a factor which is often overlooked by institutional analysts and designers. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines including psychology, economics, and sociological and political studies, this book develops a coherent and accessible theory for explaining the unpredictability of individual behaviour. The author then highlights the danger of institutional reforms undermining the very capacity to generate predictability which is so central to their success. This book will appeal to academics, researchers and professionals in many fields including management studies, behavioural economics and the new, interdisciplinary field of institutional design.

Behavioral law hat sich von punktuellen Hinterfragungen innerhalb der ökonomischen Analyse zum Fundament einer Annahmenlehre für die gesamte Rechtswissenschaft entwickelt. Damit Theorie und Praxis rechtlicher Steuerung an den Wissensbestand anknüpfen können, muss man empirisches Schrifttum für juristische Zwecke erschließen. Doch auch das Recht selbst ist aus dem Blickwinkel des Denkens und Handelns von Individuen neu zu befragen. Dabei gibt es weit mehr zu entdecken als seine Konzepte vom psychischen Realbereich: Am Ende geht es um das Funktionieren einer aus menschlichen Urteilen und Entscheidungen zusammengesetzten staatlichen Praxis.Der Band widmet sich diesen Aufgaben exemplarisch für die Kernfächer des öffentlichen Rechts als "allgemeinen Teil" der rechtlichen Verhaltenssteuerung in Deutschland. Er arbeitet systematisch den Theorienkanon der verhaltenswissenschaftlichen Analyse auf, erschließt Verbindungen innerhalb des Rechtsstoffs und fragt nach neuen Möglichkeiten dogmatischer Konstruktion und Strukturierung.

Die in regelmäßigen Abständen erscheinenden "Berichte zur Lage des Eigentums" thematisieren die Problem- und Erkenntnisfelder im Umfeld des Privateigentums in all seinen relevanten Bezügen, aus allen wissenschaftlichen Forschungsrichtungen sowie in nationaler, europäischer und globaler Perspektive. Im vorliegenden ersten Bericht stehen juristische Fragestellungen im Vordergrund. Am Beginn indes steht eine eigentumstheoretische Analyse zur sozialen Funktion des Eigentums von Christoph Engel. Otto Depenheuer skizziert, analysiert und kommentiert die für das nationale Eigentumsrecht grundlegende Rechtsprechungsentwicklung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zu Art. 14 GG. Thomas von Danwitz gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über den internationalen Eigentumsschutz in Europa und auf der Ebene der Welthandelsorganisation.

Die in regelmäßigen Abständen erscheinenden "Berichte zur Lage des Eigentums" thematisieren die Problem- und Erkenntnisfelder im Umfeld des Privateigentums in all seinen relevanten Bezügen, aus allen wissenschaftlichen Forschungsrichtungen sowie in nationaler, europäischer und globaler Perspektive. Im vorliegenden ersten Bericht stehen juristische Fragestellungen im Vordergrund. Am Beginn indes steht eine eigentumstheoretische Analyse zur sozialen Funktion des Eigentums von Christoph Engel. Otto Depenheuer skizziert, analysiert und kommentiert die für das nationale Eigentumsrecht grundlegende Rechtsprechungsentwicklung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zu Art. 14 GG. Thomas von Danwitz gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über den internationalen Eigentumsschutz in Europa und auf der Ebene der Welthandelsorganisation.

Ebbe Weiss-Weingart (b. 1923) is one of the pioneers of international studio jewellery. For over seventy years she has enriched the contemporary jewellery scene with her diverse works. Her inception in the 1950s and 1960s with structured surfaces and galvanised sculptured pieces will never be forgotten. Alongside figurative motifs - in particular, her portrayals of humans and animals - she also created pieces with an ironic and quirky touch. In her last phase of creativity, which began in the 1990s, she had a penchant for working with jewellery made from Chinese jade reliefs. Around 200 illustrations of these jewellery objects documents her award-winning work, and along with previously unpublished photographic material, expands on her hitherto unknown accomplishments.Text in English and German.

The German silversmith Paula Straus (1894–1943) was a pivotal figure in shaping the “Golden Twenties” and the creative decades of the Bauhaus. Even early on, her jewellery objects and handmade items of silverware were reviewed with praise in the specialist press, and national and international exhibitions followed. In joining the design studio of the silverware factory Peter Bruckmann & Söhne, Heilbronn, in 1925, an unparalleled career began as Germany’s first woman industrial designer. The silverware she designed — coffee and tea services — for handcrafted as well as machine production stands as an example of her own original style, which is defined by a purist idiom.Her professional success and her renown as a craftswoman and designer have been completely forgotten due to the national-socialist persecution of the Jews from 1933 and her murder in Auschwitz. The time has now come to rediscover her work.With contributions by Edith Neumann, Monika and Reinhard Sänger, Joachim W. Storck, Michal S. Friedlander, Christoph Engel, and a foreword by Winfried Kretschmann.Text in German.