This collection of short essays proceeds from an international conference organized by DIIS on 9th November 2009, the day of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The volume centers on the political, social, and economic implications of the revolutions of 1989 on European...

The rapid growth of human population has impacted on global food security, development and health. Therefore, efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals of reducing poverty and hunger needs to particularly focus on the critical linkages between agriculture, nutrition, health and...

How technological change affects wages, employment and the income distribution are core topics in economics since the very beginnings of modern economic research. Who are the winners and losers of innovations? Is technological progress always to the advantage of some groups and to the...