Radicalization and terrorism have become major problems at national, regional, and global levels, with enormous psychological, cultural, and material consequences for individuals and societies. It is argued that radicalization, terrorism, and security more broadly, can be best understood through an
How do societies deal with past atrocities associated with dictatorship, war or genocide? Should such efforts focus on individual guilt or collective reconciliation, and who are to decide on the right policy, the international community or the local survivors? Can justice mechanisms help to end
The aim of the course is to give a good knowledge base in the subject of sustainable production and consumption issues, both from the consumer as from the producer perspective. It will equip students with a set of examples of successful ideas and solutions in this area. They will be able to
This course analyzes the paths through which preferences of individuals and groups are transformed into policies in democracies. We begin with a brisk review of theoretical approaches to questions of voting, majority rule, delegation and agency, cooperation, public goods, and the commons. We then
Search and matching problems are central to many economic questions regarding markets and social interactions. These questions range from figuring out the reasons for wage inequality to understanding why money is valued. Search and matching problems also introduce important trade-offs at the
The collapse of the Soviet Empire did not result in the development of new independent states similar with respect to political democracy, market economic, and efficient state administrative structures. Rather, now twenty years after we look at a variety of political systems, varying democratic
The purpose of this seminar is to examine two approaches to the empirical study of ethical life, psychological and ethnographic, in order to investigate their points of convergence, congruence, and difference. The motive is twofold, to survey the emerging social sciences of morality and ethics, and
The goal of this course is to give teachers of German as a foreign language the opportunity to extend their knowledge in teaching methods and to improve their German skills on a high level. The training is addressed to teachers working at the university or in the field of adult education. Period
The starting point of theory formation is the ethical idea of sustainability. It is based on obligations toward future generations and presupposes intergenerational equity. Concerning specific resources and services (e.g. fresh water, the atmosphere as a carbon sink, the wide variety of ecosystem)
To present the basic insights from climate change economics, using numerical tools to assess the substance of various insights derived from theory. The course includes 'hands on' tutorials to program dedicated integrated assessment models (IAMs) in GAMS. We extend the basic IAMs with uncertainty,
