MINE Homo Oeconomicus and Homo Politicus

4.1 Literature Recommendations

Key Literature

Recommendations for further Reading

4.2 References

Homo Oeconomicus

Arrow, K.J., 1963. Social Choice and Individual Values. Second Edition. Yale University Press, New Haven and London (first edition 1951). This is by far the most important book on the relationship between the Homo Oeconomicus and social welfare.

Falk, A. und U. Fischbacher (2006), A Theory of Reciprocity, Games and Economic Behavior 54, 293-315

Fehr, E. und K. Schmidt (1999), A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation, The Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, 817–868.

Gray, J., 1987. The Economic Approach to Human Behavior: Its Prospects and Limitations, in: G. Radnitzky, P. Bernholz, (Editors), Economic Imperialism. The Economic Method Applied Outside the Field of Economics. New York, 33-49.

Manstetten, R., 1999. Das Menschenbild der Ökonomie. Eine Grundlagenreflexion des Homo oeconomicus im Horizont der Philosophie von Adam Smith. Alber, Freiburg. This is the best book on the picture of humankind in Economics.

Manstetten, R. and M. Faber (1997) Bemerkungen zu dem Aufsatz von Mary s. Morgan, The character of `rational‘ man. Dialektik,: 121-129. This short paper gives a concise summary of limits and merits of the model of Homo Oeconomicus

Rabin, M. (1993), Incorporating Fairness into Game Theory and Economics, American Economic Review 83, 1281–1302

Public Choice

Bernholz, Peter (1978). “The Limits of Liberty. Between Anarchy and Leviathan”. A Critical Appraisal, in: Bagiotti T. and G. Franco, (eds.), Pioneering Economics – International Essays in honour of Giovanni Demaria. Padova: Edizioni Cedam: 87-107. This paper gives a concise representation of Buchanan’ s book The Limits of Liberty.

Buchanan, J.M., Tullock, G., 1962. The Calculus of Consent. Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy. Ann Arbor.

Buchanan, James M. (1975): The Limits of Liberty. Between Anarchy and Leviathan. Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press. (German: (1984). Die Grenzen der Freiheit. Tübingen: Mohr). This is a pioneering study of Public choice Theory-

Buchanan, James M. (1977): Freedom in Constitutional Contract. Perspectives of a Political Economist. College Station: Texas A and M University Press.

Mueller, D.C., 2003. Public Choice III. A revised edition of Public Choice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. This book gives a good representation of Public Choice Theory.

Petersen, T., 1996. Individuelle Freiheit und allgemeiner Wille. James Buchanans politische Ökonomie und die politische Philosophie. Mohr, Tübingen. This book is an excellent study of important aspects of Political Philosophy and fundamental questions of Public choice theory.

Homo Politicus

Bernholz, P., 1998. Homo oeconomicus and homo politicus: a comment. Kyklos, 51: 409-415.This short paper gives a critique of the concept of Homo Politicus developed by Faber et al. 1997.

Faber, M., 1999. Was ist Wirtschaft? Was ist die Wissenschaft von der Wirtschaft? Dialektik 1999/3: 13-41.

Faber, M., Manstetten, R., Petersen, T., 1997. Homo politicus and homo oeconomicus. Political economy. Constitutional interest and ecological interest. Kyklos, 50: 457-483. This paper develops the concept of homo politicus from an economic and a philosophical perspective.

Faber, M., Manstetten, R., 2014, Was ist Wirtschaft? Von der Politischen zur Ökologischen Ökologie, 2. Edition Alber, Freiburg. This books deals with various elements of the Map Ecological Economics.

Gintis, H., 2000. Beyond Homo oeconomicus: evidence from experimental economics. Ecological Economics, 35: 311-322.

Jager, W., Janssen, M.A., De Vries, H.J.M., De Greef, J., Vlek, C.A.J., 2000. Behaviour in commons dilemmas: Homo economicus and Homo psychologicus in an ecological-economic model. Ecological Economics, 35: 357-379.

Kliemt, H., 1984. Nicht-explanative Funktionen eines “Homo oeconomicus” und Beschränkungen seiner explanativen Rolle. Homo Oeconomicus II: 7-49. This paper was written by a philosopher, who has also dealt with many aspects of economics.

Manstetten, R., Hottinger, O., Faber, M. 1998, Zur Aktualität von Adam Smith; Homo Oeoconomicus und ganzheitliches Menschenbild, Homo oeconomicus, XV(2):127-168.

Nyborg, K., 2000. Homo economicus and homo politicus: interpretation and aggregation of environmental values. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 42: 305-322.

Petersen, T., Faber, M., Schiller, J., 2000. Umweltpolitik in einer evolutionären Wirtschaft und die Bedeutung des Menschenbildes. In: K. Bizer, B. Linscheidt, A. Truger (Editors), Staatshandeln im Umweltschutz. Perspektiven einer institutionellen Umweltökonomik. Duncker & Humblodt, Berlin: 135-150.

Siebenhüner, B., 2000. Homo sustinens – towards a new conception of humans for the science of sustainability. Ecological Economics, 32: 15-25.

Söderbaum, P., 1999. Values, ideology and politics in ecological economics. Ecological Economics, 28: 161-170.

Empirical Studies

Faber, M., Stephan, G. and Michaelis, P. 1989, Umdenken in der Abfallwirschaft. Vermeiden, Verwerten, Beseitigen, Springer, Heidelberg, 1989

Green, D.P., Shapiro, I., 1994. Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory. A Critique of Applications in Political Science. Yale University Press, New Haven.

Michaelis, P., 1991. Theorie und Politik der Abfallwirtschaft. Eine ökonomische Analyse. (Studies in Contemporary Economics). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg et. al.

Petersen, T., Faber, M., 2000. Bedingungen erfolgreicher Umweltpolitik im deutschen Föderalismus. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ZPol) 1/00: 5-41. This paper shows the empirical relevance of the Homo Politicus for the development of the waste management in Germany.

Petersen, T., Faber, M., 2005 Verantwortung und Kuppelproduktion. Grundlagen der Umweltpolitik, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 1/05:35-59.

Petersen, T., Faber, M. and Herrmann, B., (1999) Vom „Müllnotstand“ zum „Müllmangel“. Die neuere Entwicklung in der deutschen Abfallwirtschaft, in: Müll und Abfall, 31: 537-545.

SRU, 1998. Der Rat von Sachverständigen für Umweltfragen: Umweltgutachten 1998. Umweltschutz: Erreichtes sichern – neue Wege gehen, Stuttgart.

Töpfer, K. , 1988. Entsorgungsmanagement von morgen, Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen 9/88: 658-660.