This book presents a critical reassessment of theories of property rights, in response to conflicts and competition between different groups, and the state. It does so by taking an institutional political perspective to analyse the structures of property rights, with a focus on a series of case...

The Political Economy of Independent Ukraine analyses the reasons for the abysmal economic performance of Ukraine during the 1990s. The main thesis is that economic development was blocked by a set of parasitic mechanisms at all levels of the economy that prevented the development of value-added...

This book analyzes of the surplus of production capacity in China. According to a government statement, there is a serious surplus of productive capacity in the steel, cement, glass, aluminum, and shipbuilding industries. There was no surplus of productive capacity in above industries between...

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...

Government-Enterprise Connection: Entrepreneur and Private Enterprise Development in China -- Government, Enterprise and Entrepreneur: Are These Relationships the Primary Productive Force? -- Entrepreneur and Enterprise Development: Human Capital, Political Capital and Decision-making Style --...

Production of Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil -- From State Intervention to a Free Market -- Introduction -- PART 1 -- STATE INTERVENTION IN THE SUGARCANE ETHANOL INDUSTRY IN BRAZIL -- State intervention in the chain of production of ethanol from sugarcane in Brazil: its forms and effects on...

Vorwort, Einführung -- Grundlagen der Volkswirtschaftslehre -- Nachfrage, Angebot und Marktgleichgewicht -- Elastizitäten -- Unternehmen und Märkte -- Einkommen, Produktion und Wachstum -- Inflation und Geldpolitik -- Arbeitsmarkt -- Internationaler Handel -- Marktversagen -- Eingriffe des...