This commemorative publication was given to Jürgen Backhaus (JB) on July
10, 2015 marking the day of his final lecture in the Department of the
Sciences of the State at Erfurt University. Since 2001, he has been a full
professor at our university for Public Finance and Fiscal Sociological (Alfred
Krupp von Bohlen- und Halbach-Foundation). After a stroke in September
2014, he was forced to retire ahead of time. Therefore, the set-up time for
publishing this Festschrift was rather limited. The considerable amount of
contributed articles bespeaks his appreciation and popularity among his colleagues
and peers.
The contributions in this volume strikingly show the main points of JB's
teaching and research activities. Some have a focus on the history of economic
ideas (Baloglou, Brady, Chaloupek, Frambach, Hagemann, Montgomery,
Reinert). Others deal with topics of finance and fiscal sociology (Costarella
and Fedeli, Nentjes, Raudla, Schöbl, Tiedeman and Plassmann, Wagner),
partly with up-to-date references (Bassen, Dietz, Ebner, Economou and Kyriazis,
Forte and Mutascu, and Godert-van der Kroon). Two articles are concerned
with the current university educational system (Schmidt, Drechsler),
which JB foresightedly was very skeptical about. Two articles are aligned in
a more econometrical and experimental way, namely the article by Michele,
Francesco and Michela, and the one by Rötheli, a colleague from the Erfurt
Department of the Sciences of the State.
Helge Peukert
Preface
Economic Theory and Public Finance
Elena Costarelli, Silvia Fedeli
Are budget norms relevant to the dynamics of Government
fiscal indicators?. The case of Italy (1948-2014)
Caputo Michele, Forte Francesco, Mantovani Michela
An Evolutionary Model of Two Competing Species with a Memory
Formalism, Applied to the Italian Movies Industries to Assess
the Effects of the Policies for its Promotion
Andries Nentjes
An Essay in the Law and Economics of Cheating
Ringa Raudla
The Effects of Electoral Rules on Public Finances: Taking Stock
Tobias F. Rötheli
Sudden and Violent Changes in Long-Term Expectations:
Keynes and Reality
Enrico Schöbel
Monitoring in der Finanzverwaltung. Auf dem Weg zu einer
regelmäßigen Berichterstattung über die Steuerrechtsbefolgung
in Deutschland
Nicolaus Tideman, Florenz Plassmann
Managing Water Use during Droughts of Unknown Duration
Richard E. Wagner
Collaboration vs. Imposition as Motifs for a Theory of Public Finance:
Transcending the Goldscheid-Schumpeter Debate
Current Fiscal Sociological Questions
Franziska Bassen
Offshore Advance Price Arrangements: Gewinnverschiebung in
Regulierungs- und Steueroasen am Beispiel Luxemburgs
Raimund Dietz
Die Unmöglichkeit des Sozialismus im Spiegel der Theorie
Alexander Ebner
Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft als Mechanismen
der Konfliktprävention im post-sowjetischen Raum.
Eine theoretische Skizze mit Blick auf die Ukraine und Moldau
Emmanouil-Marios L. Economou, Nicholas C. Kyriazis
Ancient Greek democratic federations: A Comparative study
with the European Union
Francesco Forte, Mihai Mutascu
State fragility and fiscal decentralization in
EU ex-communist countries
Annette Godart-van der Kroon
Consequences of the financial Crisis
Higher Education
Wolfgang Drechsler
Die Staatswissenschaften an der Universität Erfurt.
Zu ihrer Gründung 1991-92 und zu Jürgen G. Backhaus' Beitrag dazu
Karl-Heinz Schmidt
Allgemeine Bildung oder "Fachausbildung" durch Universitäten?
Mit Beispielen aus Deutschland und anderen Ländern
History of Economic Thought and Economic History
Christos P. Baloglou
An economic and social analysis of Apostle Paul's doctrines
in the Epistle to Titus
Gordon L. Brady
Jürgen Backhaus and Gordon Tullock:
Taking up the challenge and attacking the sacred cows
Günther Chaloupek
Economic theories of the role of the city in the development
of capitalism
Hans Frambach
Outstanding personalities of German history -
Reichsfreiherr vom Stein as a Utopian
Harald Hagemann
The German Economy and German Economics in Crisis during
the Weimar Republic 1918-33
Gerrit Meijer
The Peace of Münster at the Background of the History of Thought
Michael R. Montgomery
John Stuart Mill's Utopian Constitutionalism
Erik S. Reinert
Daniel Raymond (1820): A US economist who inspired Friedrich List,
with notes on other forerunners of List from the
English-speaking periphery
Curriculum Vitae Jürgen Backhaus