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  1. Dilemmas of social order: Collective and positional goods, leadership and political conflicts.Erich Weede - 1985 - Sociological Theory 3 (2):46-57.
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    Comparative Economic Development in China and Japan.Erich Weede - 2004 - Japanese Journal of Political Science 5 (1):69-90.
    Three hundred years ago per capita incomes in China and Japan were about equal and fairly close to the global mean. At the end of the twentieth century Japanese per capita incomes are about as high as Western incomes and about seven times as high as Chinese incomes. How could this happen? Manchu China and Tokugawa Japan did not establish equally safe property rights for merchants and producers as the West did. But political fragmentation and feudalism within Japan provided something (...)
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    Comparative Economic Performance in China and India.Erich Weede - 2001 - Journal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 11 (1).
    Together, China and India account for almost two fifths of mankind. In purchase power parity terms the Chinese economy is the second largest in the world ahead of Japan, and the Indian economy is the fourth largest ahead of Germany. In less than two decades these two big Asian economies together might account for a quarter of the global product. Currently, however, both countries are still poor.Both countries might outgrow poverty, because potential advantages of backwardness as well as fairly strong (...)
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    Der ökonomische Erklärungsansatz in der Soziologie.Erich Weede - 1989 - Analyse & Kritik 11 (1):23-51.
    The economic approach to sociology accepts purposeful behavior at the level of the individual, but rejects functionalism at the group level. It posits rationality or the attempt to maximize utilities. In general, it assumes stable preferences and selfishness. Here, the rational action model of human behavior is applied to the division of labor, exchange, and team production; to social norms and deviant behavior; to rebellions and revolutions. A focus on inequalities in resource endowments and motivation together with insights from the (...)
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    Evolution und Planung: Überlegungen zur Wirtschafts- und Friedensordnung.Erich Weede - 2003 - Analyse & Kritik 25 (1):60-79.
    Although individuals cannot desist from planning, social processes cannot be commanded and controlled successfully. The shortcomings and disadvantages of holistic planning and the likelihood of plan failure can be explained: Scattered knowledge can be mobilized, innovation and effort can be elicited only where planning does not displace economic freedom and competition. The positive effects of freedom and competition and the negative effects of constraining plans can be demonstrated empirically. But freedom and competition require an institutional framework. There is no need (...)
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    Inseln der Rationalität: Wie überwindet man fehlerhafte Entscheidungen auf dem Markt, in der Wissenschaft und in der Politik?Erich Weede - 2008 - Analyse & Kritik 30 (2):735-756.
    Rationality is the attempt to cope with human fallibility. It presupposes individual freedom and responsibility where responsibility includes suffering from one’s errors. If humans are fallible, then one of the most important characteristics of a social order is whether or not it provides mechanisms for eliminating and correcting errors. It is easiest to institutionalize rationality in an economy. Contestable markets, competition and the threat of bankruptcy suffice. Within academia or science, rationality requires humans to give up the utopian quest for (...)
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    Major Challenges And Minor Responses: Some Reflections On East Asia And The West.Erich Weede - 1995 - Journal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 6 (4):681-694.
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    Major Challenges and Minor Responses: Some Reflections on East Asia and the West.Erich Weede - 1995 - Journal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 6 (4):681-694.
    Il y a trois défis pour la sécurité de l’Ouest. Le premier est que l’Ouest, comparé à l’Asie de l’Est, est en déclin. Dans vingt-cinq ans, la taille économique de la Chine continentale pourrait être supérieure à la taille du marché américain ; celle de l’Inde et de l’Indonesie être supérieure à la taille économique de l’Allemagne ; celle de la Corée du Sud excéder l’Angleterre ou la France ou l’Italie. Le second est la prolifération d’un savoir à doubleemploi et (...)
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  9. Politik ohne Wettbewerbshindernisse: Kommentar zu Reiner Eichenberger: „Bessere Politik dank Deregulierung des politischen Prozesses“.Erich Weede - 2001 - Analyse & Kritik 23 (1):76-80.
    Whereas Eichenberger advocates better policies by deregulation of politics, politicians and political scientists in Western Europe are quite satisfied with Western democracies and their performance. This satisfaction is based on neglecting the insights from ‘Public Choice’ theorizing as well as on negating the coming pension crisis in ageing societies. Including Eichenberger’s ideas there are now five schools of thought about how to improve Western democracies: more direct democracy, strengthening market-preserving federalism, less law and fewer lawyers, exploiting international rivalries for limiting (...)
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