This book offers a pluralistic vision of the way economists have dealt with the question of power in society over the last two centuries. Economists’ ideas about power are examined from political, theoretical and policy-making points of view, with additional discussion of the active...

Contents -- Foreword: Markku Markkula -- Foreword -- Bror Salmelin: Foreword: Se-Hwa Wu -- Preface: Leif Edvinsson -- Preface: Carol Yeh-Yun Lin -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- 3. National Intellectual Capital Development of the Four...

The authors attempt to analyze the linkages between macroeconomic policies and economic growth variables, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a relatively...

This book purports to investigate and compare the economic development experiences in both Taiwan and South Korea in last two decades. Taiwan and South Korea’s economic development after WWII is a well-known story. However, their development after the successful post-war industrialization has...

This paper analyzes five Productive Development Policies (PDPs) implemented in Costa Rica, finding that they are not optimally addressing market failures. Moreover, government failures rather than market failures represent the main justification for PDPs. Even in the presence of market failures,...

Einleitung -- Grundlagen der Wirtschaftspolitik -- Markt und Wettbewerb -- Ordnungspolitik.-Marktversagen -- Politikversagen -- Wettbewerbspolitik -- Industriepolitik -- Konjunkturpolitik -- Die Geldpolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank -- Außenwirtschaft -- Lösungen zu den Übungsaufgaben.

Dieses Lehrbuch beschreibt systematisch die Wirkungsweisen von Märkten, Marktungleichgewichten, Marktversagen, Allokationspolitik und Gesamtwohlfahrt und erklärt sie in ihren Zusammenhängen. Nach einer Darstellung der Theorie des Marktes sowie des Marktgleichgewichts werden die Ursachen und...