Die Paneuropa-Bewegung hat ihren Ursprung in den 1920er Jahren, als der Schrecken des Ersten Weltkrieges noch allgegenwärtig war. Ziel war es, ein politisch und wirtschaftlich geeintes Europa zu schaffen und so einen weiteren Krieg auf dem Kontinent zu verhindern. Andreas Fleissig spinnt den...

Als Reimut Jochimsen am 25. November 1999 im Alter von 66 Jahren starb, verlor Deutschland einen Politiker und Ökonomen, wie es ihn in dieser Verbindung nur selten hervorbringt. Auf beiden Feldern war er bereits in jungen Jahren ungewöhnlich erfolgreich, und auch später prägte er sie...

National economic planning aims at defining strategic economic objectives and priorities for a country and designing longer term policies and institutional frameworks to achieve them. Complemented in some cases by industrial policies, economic planning is a dynamic attempt to change the...

Providing context -- Reconceptualizing "business" and "state" in business-state relations -- Developing Egypt's "SMEs:" the social fund for development -- USAID's "private sector" projects : planting the seeds of exclusion -- The businessmen cabinet's "public private partnerships" for exclusive...

The 1930s, characterised by repercussions from World War I and the Great Depression, was an era of populism, nationalism, protectionism, government intervention and attempts to create planned economies. The perceived need for economic planning emerged in Sweden in part due to the increasing...

This book provides a study on the impact of Brexit on international competitiveness and in doing so, presents a theoretical account of regional disintegration. In recent decades, the theory of regional economic integration has expanded following growing integration processes taking place not...

This book is devoted to the analysis of the Six Development Concepts of China titled “Xi Jinping's New Development Philosophy”, namely Innovative Development, Coordinated Development, Green Development, Open Development, Sharing Development, and Security Development. The book pursues three...