Max Weber Programme Working Papers

Abstract: This paper discusses the question of Taiwan’s political status (hereafter the ‘Taiwan Question’) in China’s foreign relations and its implications…

Abstract: Struck by decades of insufficient funding and lack of political will, European defence has not grown in proportion to other sectors of European…

Abstract: The Great Depression, and the interwar period more generally, were characterized by macroeconomic mismanagement. Fiscal policy, in particular, was…

Abstract: The relationship between corporate social responsibility and the law has changed considerably over time, and even today this relationship is not…

Abstract: In his writings, the first Soviet critic of television, Vladimir Sappak (1921-1961) associates the new mass medium with a political vision typical of…

Abstract: I present a quantitative model which accounts for changes in occupational wages, occupational employment shares, and the overall wage distribution.…

Abstract: This paper studies changes in computer use and job quality in the EU-15 between 1995 and 2015. We document that while the proportion of workers using…

Abstract: Our new approach enriches the general additive monopolistic competition model (AMCM) with a space of product characteristics: consumers' “ideal…