Power and Responsibility

Martin Leroch is a Professor of Economics and Ethics for Economics and Business at Pforzheim University (Germany). His research focuses on Philosophy & Economics, Behavioral Economics and Law & Economics.Florian Rupp is a Professor of Mathematics at the Kutaisi International University (Germany). His research interests comprise dynamical systems, their stability and bifurcations, and applications in Biology and in the Social Sciences.

• Chapter 1. Instead of an introduction - Manfred on his 75th Birthday (Heinz Kurz).- Part I. Economics and Philosophy.- Chapter 2. Three Types of Dramatic Irony (Timo Airaksinen).- Chapter 3. Defence is of Much More Importance than Opulence: Adam Smith on the Political Economy of War (Heinz Kurz).- Part II. Labor Economics.- Chapter 4. Relative Absence Concerns, Positional Consumption Preferences and Working Hours (Laszlo Goerke).- Chapter 5. Power, Responsibility and Social Policy: The Impact of Basic Income in a Competitive Experimental Labor Market (Veera Jokipalo).- Part III. Voting and Voting Power.- Chapter 6. Computing the Public Good index for weighted voting games with precoalitions using dynamic programming (Jochen Staudacher).- Chapter 7. The Art and Beauty of Voting Power (Sascha Kurz).- Chapter 8. An application of power indices for the family of weighted majority games in partition function form (José Alonso Meijide).- Chapter 9. Measuring Voting Power in Complex Shareholding Structures: a Public Good Index Approach (Izabella Stach).