The recent steel conflict between the USA and Europe has once again dramatically highlighted the close links between political and economic strategies in this field. The world-wide steel crisis has provoked permanent state intervention in the steel industry. The forms taken by this intervention...

Today technological progress is promoted by governments in numerous and diverse ways. What forms does this intervention take? Is governmental promotion of technological progress necessary? Is it even justifiable?

The system of multiple exchange rates thus has serious disadvantages, which become even graver in some developing countries where there is a combination of several unfavourable factors. Such factors are: Inflation, insufficient savings, irrational behaviour on the part of private economic...