By combining insights from Europeanization, globalization, varieties of capitalism, and policy transfer literature, this book reconceptualizes the dynamics taking place during the EU enlargement process and makes a major contribution to the understanding of the relationships between...

The book presents the economic policy model known as “Social Market Economy” in Germany, the country where it originated. Although the model has since been adopted as core objective in the EU Treaty of Lisbon, experts still disagree on its exact nature. The author contributes to this debate...

Analysis of the current financial/economic crisis from the Director of the Banking Sector at the FSA (Financial Services Authority). New edition updated to take account of changes in regulation and legislation in the US, EU and UK. Many of these changes were in line with the recommendations made...

This book develops John Rawls’s theory of justice by adding reality-based analyses. This is accomplished by answering the question of who makes rules and how, and by providing new answers to three of today’s most practical and critical issues. The question of who and how makes rules is...

This book employs a variety of economic and philosophical methodologies in order to discover the philosophical implications of creative destruction, competition regulation, and the role that businesses or market agents play. Instead of discussing these relations in a purely abstract manner,...

This book describes and refutes thirteen ideas involving free market principles and the US economic system, arguing that these (mostly familiar) ideas are myths. The myths are deeply ingrained in the United States' self-image and in political discourse, and are hailed as indisputable,...

Das Buch fasst im ersten Teil das ökonomische System von Friedrich List in lebendiger, allgemein verständlicher, aktueller und anschaulicher Weise zusammen und belegt seine Bedeutung als Vordenker der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft umfassend. Im weiteren Verlauf werden dann die Schwierigkeiten und...

Eigentum verpflichtet, so ist es schon im Grundgesetz festgehalten. Eigentum und Vermögen, Kapital und Besitz stellen eine Form des persönlichen wie gesellschaftlichen Reichtums dar. Doch wie wird dieser Reichtum erworben? Wie wird er verteilt? Die Grundwerte des wirtschaftlichen Handelns sind...

Die Evolution als Grundlage allen Verhaltens -- Das Statusziel -- Wie das Gehirn entscheidet -- Die Rolle der Arbeitsteilung -- Heuristisches Entscheiden -- Die Protagonisten -- Gerechtigkeit und gerechtes Teilen -- Moral und Religion -- Vertrauen -- Individuelle und kollektive Schutzmaßnahmen...