Following German reunification in 1990, East Germany's centrally planned economy was abolished and replaced by West Germany's social market economy. Western Germany has since provided vast financial support to aid the transformation, and enable eastern Germany to catch-up with western Germany's...

Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- Teil I. Staatliche Prozesssteuerung versus Ordnungsgestaltung in der Marktwirtschaft -- Ordnungstheorie versus Institutionenökonomik: Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten / Leschke, Martin / Thieme, H. Jörg -- Central Banks - from Overburdening to Decline? /...

Zusammenfassung: "This volume argues that capitalism had a significant presence in Weimar and Nazi Germany but in a different guise than before World War I. Kapitalismuskritik (critique of capitalism), nationalism, and state intervention all grew in importance, as did uncertainty about the...

In this book, one of Germany's most influential economists describes his country's economy, the largest in the European Union and the third largest in the world, and analyzes its weaknesses: poor GDP growth performance, high unemployment due to a malfunctioning labor market, and an unsustainable...

Grundlagen der Volkswirtschaftslehre -- Makroökonomische Analyse -- Probleme der Wirtschaftspolitik und Wirtschaftsordnung -- Konzeptionen der Wirtschaftspolitik -- Funktionsweise von Märkten und Marktversagen -- Wettbewerbspolitik -- Wirtschaftliche Integration und Globalisierung.

The growing centrality of risk management in pro-market governance raises important questions regarding how risks are produced, and why? Who and what is included in, and excluded from, risk management, and why? And, what is the relationship between the rise of risk management and neoliberalism?...