Im Verlauf fortschreitender Ökonomisierung und des in allen Sparten stattgefundenenGrößenwachstums von Primärgenossenschaften ist hier und da inder Beziehung „Mitglied – Genossenschaft“ ein Verlust von Gemeinschaftsgefühlund persönlicher Verbundenheit eingetreten. Damit geht...

This paper analyses the work of the Nobel Prize winning economist ProfessorAmartya Sen from the perspective of human rights. It assesses the ways inwhich Sen’s research agenda has deepened and expanded human rightsdiscourse in the disciplines of ethics and economics, and examines how hiswork...

Die Unternehmen der Mineralölindustrie sind konfrontiert mit gravierenden Defiziten der institutionellen Rahmenordnungen für globales Wirtschaften. Sie reagieren auf diese Defizi-te, indem sie sich auf soziale und ökologische Kriterien sowie auf Governance-Standards freiwillig selbst...

This paper highlights relative price adjustments taking place in the global economy as important sources of the lower levels of inflation rates observed in the recent decades. Using a markup model, it shows substantial effects from declines in wage costs and import prices relative to consumer...

The remarkable stability of low domestic inflation in many countries requires explanation. In this paper, a number of competing hypotheses are evaluated on a stand-alone basis, and all are found to be inadequate. This includes the view that this outcome has been solely the result of more...

We review the large literature on various economic policies that could help developingeconomies effectively manage the process of financial globalization. Our central findingsindicate that policies promoting financial sector development, institutional quality and tradeopenness appear to help...

We show that taxation of rents may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement in a smallopen economy provided tax revenues are earmarked to reduce wage taxes...