Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as possessing superhuman powers of reason, limitless kn[...]

The emergence of European private law constitutes one of the most significant developments in the modern legal landscape. Driven by the European Union, a political programme of harmonization has begun to reshape the national private laws of Member States. Successful legal reform depends on a solid f[...]

"Eine einzigartige Tat, die nicht nur der Physik, sondern dem Weltbild aller Menschen eine neue Wendung gegeben hat", nannte der Nobelpreisträger Max von Laue die Quantentheorie, als deren Begründer Max Planck in die Geschichte eingegangen ist. Doch seine Leistungen gehen weit darüber hinaus:[...]