The Sun Shall Be No More Thy Light. Anthem

Let there be more light!

t S t S n N n been finally awarded. From 1910 to 1921, Einstein was nominated 62 times (see table), most of them for the Theory of Relativity (Special4 or General1), but always without success. Light’s nature has fascinated the curiosity of many great scientists. One of them was Albert Einstein, who was able to predict its trajectories across the space-time continuum deformed by gravity. This d...

You Shall Be as Gods

the religious testaments and presentday statements on human personality. The schism is only partly due to the need for specialisation of knowledge, and even as late as the twelfth century Moses Maimonides, living in Spain and writing in Arabic, was physician, philosopher, mathematician, and biblical commentator. The ghettos in Central Europe, in contrast, were created in a culture which separat...

And the First Shall Be the Last

This study analyzes the puzzle of Hungarian economic drifting in a long run perspective. The underlying puzzle for the investigation is why bad policies are invariably popular and good policies unpopular, thus why political and economic rationality never overlap. The first part of the article summarizes in eight points the basic features of the postwar period. Then six lessons are offered, whic...

"And the last shall be first..."

This paper explores the political economy of fiscal policy in the German Länder, testing several theories from the cross-national literature on budget deficits along with some additional hypotheses relating to the incentives created by the German federal system. The results suggest that governments controlled by the left spend and borrow more in the long run than right-wing governments, though ...

How the Constitution Shall Not Be Construed