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...

1. The disaster cycle -- 2. Hurricane Katrina : a classic natural disaster -- 3. The first World War -- 4. The Great Depression -- 5. Mining disasters -- 6. Tobacco -- 7. The twin financial disasters of the early twenty-first century -- 8. Conclusion.

1. Sports economics and the sports industry: perspectives in economic history / John K. Wilson -- 2. The evolution of professional team sports / Richard Pomfret -- 3. The very short tenure of foreign players in Japanese professional baseball, 1951-2004 / Akihiko Kawaura and Sumner La Croix -- 4....

1. Introduction -- 2. Managing horizontal information flows in Japan -- 3. Managing with charismatic leadership in Korea -- 4. Managing the boundaries of the firm in Qing and Nationalist China -- 5. Managing the Chinese firm in Hong Kong and Taiwan -- 6. Managing relations with state agencies in...

Economic and policy implications of population aging / Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, Naohiro Ogawa -- Population aging, changing retirement policies and lifetime earnings profiles in Japan / Robert Clark, Naohiro Ogawa, Rikiya Matsukura -- Firm productivity, work-force age and educational...

1. Introduction : the world economy in historical perspective -- 2. Economic growth and development : a very long-run view -- 3. Growth theories : old and new -- 4. Managing aggregate economic instability : from Keynes to Lucas -- 5. International economic integration in the Second Global Age.

The Elgar Dictionary of Economic Quotations is a unique compendium of quotations on subjects of interest to economists and those who are generally intrigued by the social sciences. The coverage is not merely confined to economists, but includes quotes from essayists, jurists, philosophers,...

1. Introduction : catch-up -- 2. Export-oriented growth : positive aspects -- 3. Institutionalizing an export-oriented regime -- 4. Trade pattern in the early phase of catch-up -- 5. The engine of catch-up : big conglomerates -- 6. Growth and equity -- 7. Experiences of East Asian NICs -- 8. The...

Though scientists and environmentalists have long expressed concern over the rapid deterioration of the global environment, economists have largely failed to recognize the issues relevance to their field. Salah El Serafy argues for an increased focus on the economic aspects of environmental...