From Asylum law to the future of the global trading order, Hans-Jörg Schmidt-Trenz provides answers to the pressing questions of our time. How do we sustain cooperation? How do we overcome the ever-present challenge of opportunism? What role do rules, sanctions, and boundaries play in this process? Drawing on both contemporary and historical examples, he takes the reader on a journey from criminal law to asylum law, from guiding culture (Leitkultur) to religion, from monetary and competition policy to patent law, and from the blessings and pitfalls of democratic majority rule to the independence of the judiciary and central banks. He also highlights the institutional factors that triggered the Industrial Revolution and shaped the rule-based economic, social, and international order whose players and rules are being reshuffled in the twenty-first century.
About the Author
Hans-Jörg Schmidt-Trenz possesses a rare combination of theoretical and practical insight into the workings of rules, laws, and institutions. A renowned professor of economics, he has held numerous senior leadership positions at the intersection of business and public policy.
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