This article summarizes the main points discussed at the seminar ?Economics as an Imperial Science,? held by the Czech Economic Association in November 1999. The seminar was devoted to the theory of preferences and its extensions to ?non-economic? topics, a research agenda coined by Prof. Gary...

The paper presents a shortened version of Finance Minister Jiri Rusnok’s addresses to the lower house of the Czech Parliament in which he sketched the main macroeconomic, political and financial assumptions of the government’s 2002 state budget proposal. As the government’s proposal was...

The annual meeting of the European Economic Association took place in Bolzano, Italy this year. There were more than 120 seminars, many panel discussions, and three main lectures presented. The seminars covered a broad range of issues related to economic theory and to applied research....

The paper presents a shortened version of Finance Minister Bohuslav Sobotka's addresses to the lower house of the Czech Parliament in which he sketched the main macroeconomic, political and financial assumptions of the government's 2003 state budget proposal.

Finance Minister Pavel Mertlík outlined the principles of 2001 state budget. First he analysed the macroeconomic conditions that influence the state budget ? expected inflation rate, GDP growth the rate of unemployment. Further affecting the state budget arithmetic are the exchange rate of the...