This review discusses the challenges and opportunities of German rural areas. Significant differences between East and West persist and many of these have clear rural dimensions. Factors such as CAP reforms, ageing of the German population and migration trends will also have important rural...

1. Kautilya’s Arthashashtra and a mixed economy within Monarchy -- 2. Socialism in the Soviet Union -- 3. Socialism within a Democracy, Fabian Socialism in Yugoslavia, Scandinavia, India -- 4. Socialist theory of Feldman and Mahalanobis -- 5. Socialist Calculation -- 6. Contemporary capitalism...

Low incomes and high unemployment in rural areas are issues of concern to policy makers in all countries. With the ongoing structural adjustment in primary agriculture employment opportunities are diminishing, while off-farm employment in rural areas is growing, albeit gradually

Planning in a general sense is concerned with the design of communication and decision making mechanisms in organizations where information and choice are decentralized. Non-cooperative planning theory as it is developed in this book treats the incentive aspects hereof. It stresses how strategic...