"In the United States powerful job gains have been achieved in the last 25 years. In contrast the number of jobs in the European Union has increased comparatively little. At the same time unemployment has grown in two phases in the European countries whereas it remained at a comparatively low...

"Education is the 'raw material' of the knowledge-based society which is at the centre of the new neo-classical growth theory, and most of all at the heart of the evolutionary growth theory, as the innovation capabilities of economies depend on human capital. According to the more recent...

Der Aufsatz gibt einen Überblick über die Quellen von Verzerrungen des US-amerikanischen Konsumentenpreisindexes (CPI) nach oben sowie nach unten und diskutiert die Maßnahmen, die das Bureau of Labor Statistics ergriffen hat, um sie zu beseitigen. Die verbliebenen Verzerrungen werden...