Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

The Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods was founded in 2004. It is one represented by 79 institutes of the Max Planck Society and there in the humanities, social sciences and humanities section. The Institute has its headquarters in the former residence of the Egyptian Ambassador in Bonn district of Gronau ( Kurt -Schumacher -Straße 10 ).

The Institute emerged from the 1997 working under the direction of Christoph Engel Working Group Common Goods. Angel is also Director since the establishment of the Institute. Second director since April 2004, the economist Martin Hellwig. Predecessor was the political scientist Adrienne Héritier.

Of research of the Max Planck Institute on the one hand goods that are not traded in a market economy, such as the natural resources of air, water, soil. On the other hand, the Institute is engaged with public goods, whose supply, no one can be excluded, such as energy, waste management and telecommunications. The Institute pursues an interdisciplinary approach: in addition to Law and Economics Political Science and Psychology are represented.