We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 B.C., 0 A.D., and 1500 A.D. for the predecessors to today's nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes. Although our strongest results are for...

This paper studies the relationship between political conflict and economic growth in a simple model of endogenous growth with distributive conflicts. We study both the case of two "classes" (workers and capitalists) and the case of a continuum distribution of agents, characterized by different...

Vorwort zur ersten Auflage -- Einleitung -- Betriebswirtschaftliche Grundlagen -- Managementprozess -- Organisation -- Konstitutive Entscheidungen -- Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsethik : verantwortliches Handeln -- Materialwirtschaft und Logistik -- Produktion -- Marketing -- Personalmanagement --...