This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also covers the evolution of the global economy beyond transition, looking at complexity, risk...

Alexander Wulf betrachtet in diesem Buch mit Hilfe ökonomischer Methoden die Bedeutung des Wirtschaftsrechts für die volkswirtschaftliche Entwicklung und das Wirtschaftsleben. Um die historische und gegenwärtige Entwicklung des öffentlichen Wirtschaftsrechts, des Wirtschaftsprivatrechts und...

This book reflects philosophically about the socio-political dimension of economics. Part I provides normative reflections on the economy: Section I reflects on the interconnections between the multiple discourses on the economy, section II presents Hegel's claim that the economic order is an...

This collection of essays comprises some of Rudolf Richter’s important contributions to research on New Institutional Economics (NIE). It deals with the central idea, principles, and methodology of New Institutional Economics and explores its relation to sociology and law. Other chapters...

Law, economics and finance issues in Singapore’s housing development board flats -- Internalization of environmental externality in dwellings: review of court cases in Hong Kong in the past two decades -- The institutional analysis of fittings in residential units -- Asymmetric information and...

Die zahlreichen ungelösten Probleme des Anlegerschutzes zeigten sich zuletzt bei der Aufarbeitung des Zusammenbruchs des Neuen Marktes. Nach wie vor fehlt es an ausreichender Klarheit über die sachgerechte Reichweite der Informationspflichten kapitalmarktorientierter Unternehmen, was auch...

This book considers aspects of transformation of former state socialist countries: social and economic outcomes; forces in the transformation process; problems of consolidation of the new regimes;and other scenarios. It also looks at alternative types of society that might replace state...

This book sets the experiences of former communist countries as they head towards capitalism against the 'varieties of capitalism' paradigm, and provides a framework for comparing transformation processes, demonstrating how differing heritages of communist and pre-communist pasts are leading to...

20 years after the collapse of communism in Central Eastern European countries and 30 years after the start of market-oriented reforms in China, this book provides a framework for understanding the differing emphasis and sequencing of two reforms and explores in-depth these issues in the demise...

This book explores what happened in the transition economies of China, Vietnam and Myanmar from both macro and micro perspectives, and questions whether the governments of these countries are capable of implementing effective reform and transformation