The paper works with assumptions, that the conclusions of mainstream approaches to the growth theory are problematical; there are alternative social-economic approaches to the theory of economic growth that offer more plausible explanations of the fundamental economic questions than the...

Czech Abstract: Proč je teorie dobývání renty užitečnou teorií? V článku je argumentováno, že poslední kritika teorie dobývání renty není nová ani významná. Na základě vysvětleného základního konceptu teorie dobývání renty autor vysvětluje její kritiku, která...

Czech Abstract: Cílem příspěvku je analýza vývoje regulace a deregulace v České republice v období let 1990–2005, postihnutí hlavních vývojových trendů v této oblasti a analýza vývoje jak celkové výše regulace, tak její kvality. Pojem regulace je v článku zúžen na...

The paper presents results of World Bank survey in 2005 undertaken within the project Doing Business, with special regard to the Czech Republic position. Doing business conditions are assessed particularly according to the regulation burden and its impacts on entrepreneurship. The structure...

An easy and popular method for measuring the size of the underground economy is to use macro-data such as money demand or electricity demand to infer what the legitimate economy needs, and then to attribute the remaining consumption to the underground economy. Such inferences rely on the...

Joint-stock companies are among the most fundamental components of a market economy. “Voucher privatization” in the Czech Republic saw an abrupt mushrooming of joint-stock companies where none had appeared for over a generation. This occurred in an environment lacking in guiding...

The paper demonstrates how survey methods and retrospective questions can be put to effective use in the study of shadow-economy dynamics; specifically, the evolution of tax evasion in the Czech Republic. The authors measure the average individual's transition between the shadow and official...