Taking the Well-Being of Future Generations Seriously: Do People Contribute More to Intra-Temporal or Inter-Temporal Public Goods?

Taking the Right to Appeal (More or Less) Seriously

Taking the People Seriously ( I )

The subtitle of Professor Goldstein's timely and important book is "The Supreme Court's Obligation to Maintain the Constitution as Something We the People Can Understand." Essentially, Professor Goldstein contends that the Court must explain its constitutional decisions in a manner that is comprehensible to the public because continuing public consent is the true source of the Court's legitimac...

Taking National Courts More Seriously ?

Opinion 1/09 on the draft agreement for a unified patent litigation system reveals a degree of scepticism and distrust on part of the ECJ when it comes to the European Union’s international co-operation, especially its participation in international frameworks for dispute settlement. The Opinion not only made it far more complicated to achieve the aim of a unified patent litigation system in Eu...

Do People Seek to Maximize Their Subjective Well‐Being?

Do People Seek to Maximize Their Subjective Well‐Being?* In a new survey we ask respondents, after a standard Subjective Well‐Being (SWB) question, if they can think of changes in their lives that would improve their SWB score. If the SWB score is just one argument among others in the respondents’ goals in life, they should easily find ways to improve it, at the expense of other dimensions they...

Why do Consumers Contribute to Connected Goods?

Consumers contribute content available to their peers to social networks, which is important to ensure continued activity, and we term these contributions connected goods. Based on the properties of connected goods, we posit that consumers contribute to obtain either warm-glow altruistic benefits, compete for positional status or benefit from the experience of their peers’ contributions. We dev...