Making Sense of Germany
It took Biontech and other pharmaceutical companies less than a year to develop a successful vaccine against Covid_19. Imagine health authorities had adapted that fast; digital equipment was acquired, software improved, and new jobs built up. That would mean the trinity of testing, tracking, and quarantining would work as it does in countries with low …
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Die Politik redet beim Flüchtlingsthema gerne von großen, staatlichen Herausforderungen. Wenig dagegen weiß man darüber, wie sehr privates Engagement zur gelingenden Aufnahme beiträgt. Meine subjektive Wahrnehmung: Nie war der Anteil privaten Engagements größer. Und nie war das Engagement effizienter. Denn mit Hilfe des Internets wird die Motivation der vielen Unterstützer in Bahnen gelenkt, so dass aus dem Willen …
Es ist so einfach, dem Menschen alles zu nehmen, was er hat. Eine Fingerbewegung am Abzug beendet ein Leben. Eine Chance auf (individuelle) Verteidigung gibt es nicht. Weil die meisten westlichen Gesellschaften sich darauf geeinigt haben, weitgehend dem Staat das alleinige Recht auf Waffenbesitz und -gebrauch zu übertragen. Aus der Sicht mancher freiheitsliebender Menschen ist …
A question that struck me during a just finished first session at the Juniorenkreis Publizistik at Bresinchen: What is a free or liberal order? Is it an order where people have as much freedom as possible or does it mean that people agree to rules in freedom? In the latter sense liberal regulations must be broadly …
In preparation of a meeting with Hayek-Followers the next weekend I am reading a paper (Markt und Staat in einer globalisierten Welt: Die ordnungsökonomische Perspektive) from Viktor J. Vanberg. Among other things the paper is about taxation in a globalised world. Vanberg draws attention to an interesting point: about the ethical standard of raising taxes. …
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As Grover Whalen said, there is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick. Police in Germany – as in most other countries – has the monopoly of the use of force. Difference to other countries: In Germany the Police is to a large extend and due to federalism a matter of the Federal States …
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What would you do if you were on vacation, taking a bicycle tour through a forest and would find this? So it happened to me today. What I found about 10 meters next to a path through a forest near Fontainebleau in France were bracelets, watches, rings and packaging from Cartier, Swarovski or Beats, for example – probably the …
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