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...

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...

Batley and Larbi examine how governments of developing countries are organized to deliver public services. The book is based on comparative international studies of four service sectors: Health care, urban water, business promotion and agricultural marketing. Governments everywhere are being...

This edited collection provides a comprehensive geographic and chronological overview of the decentralisation processes in the successor states of former Yugoslavia and Albania during their transition and EU integration years, from 1990 until 2016. These countries present a unique laboratory for...

A comparative analysis of the process of public sector transition from central planning to market democracy. It is the story of the difficulties and complexities of moving to a system of greater autonomy for the subnational governments of the Czech and Slovak Republics, including the future of...

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...

Dieses Buch enthält eine anwendungsorientierte Einführung in die mikroökonomische Theorie sowie deren konkrete Verwendung in der Wirtschaftspolitik, insbesondere im Kontext der ökonomischen Analyse des Rechts. Strukturell werden zunächst einzelne grundlegende ökonomische Methoden aus der...