Description: ENG Is science a 'market of ideas'? Not according to the economics of science. Science is competitive, but scientific competition is not market competition. This interdisciplinary volume sheds new light on many aspects of scientific competition, from the academic labor market to the constitution of science.
Brief description: Max Albert, Geboren 1959; 1992 Dr. rer. pol. und 1998 Habilitation an der Universitat Konstanz; 1998 bis 2003 Professor fur Wirtschaftswissenschaft an der Universitat Koblenz-Landau in Landau; 2003 bis 2007 Inhaber des Lehrstuhls fur Wirtschaftstheorie an der Universitat des Saarlandes; seit 2007 Professor fur Verhaltens- und Institutionenokonomik an der Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen.Stefan Voigt, holds the chair for institutional and international economics at Philipps University Marburg and is affiliated with the International Center for Economic Research (ICER) in Torino, Italy.Dieter Schmidtchen, holds the chair for Public Policy and Managerial Economics at University of the Saarland and is director of the Center for the Study of Law and Economics, Saarbrucken.