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 Czech Council for R&D developed a new version of the Methodic for the Evaluation of R&D. In this paper, we discuss especially three criteria from this Methodic: - publications in impacted journals - publications in other scientific refereed journals - evaluation of publications with more...

The paper focuses on a comparison of three different approaches that seek to explain the existence of public goods. First the mainstream Samuelson-Musgrave approach, based on the search for an objective nature of so-called pure public goods, is critically evaluated, especially with respect to...

Almost all of us sometimes voluntarily give up some scarce resources to make someone else better. Not only the amount of resources used for such purposes, but also other wider concerns (implications for private and government sector) have drawn the attention of economists in recent decades. In...

One of the key assumptions of neoclassical economics is the existence of the rational individual, who always tries to maximize his or her utility. The paper shows possibilities of experimental evaluation of this hypothesis with respect to the various groups of people who undertake the...

Total factor productivity is defined as a relation of product to total factor inputs. Its growth is result of qualitative changes, i.e. intensive factors of growth. For measurement of total factor inputs is used production function with two factors, labor and capital (extensive factors). The...

The paper examines the sources of economic growth in the ten new member states of the European Union (EU-10) and in previous member states (EU-15) as a whole. Special attention is devoted to the Czech republic, both from macroeconomic point of view and from the view of nine industries. For the...

The paper is focused on the disputation with Mojmir Hajek on the field of the measurement of the total factor productivity index. We point out the interpretation obstacles connected to this measurement and its results at a level of the whole economy as well as of its industries. We also refer to...