The Great War of 1914-18 constituted a major rupture for the economies of Europe in several respects. It marked the end of almost a century of uninterrupted economic growth. It ended a long period of near-universal currency stability, and set in motion a painful process of de-globalisation. It...

This article examines the hypothesis that in the “Third Reich”, bureaucratic agencies engaged in economic policies competed with each other. First, a model of competition is constructed whose predictions are then compared with actual political processes in Nazi Germany. This shows that the...

The nature and economic role of legally constituted firms varies between market economiesand changes over time. In particular, the governance of leading firms and how they developdistinctive organisational capabilities vary between institutional regimes and their supportingpolitical-economic...

Economics has always had two connected faces in its Western tradition. In Adam Smith's eighteenth century, as in John Stuart Mill's nineteenth, these might be described as the science of political economy and the art of economic governance. The former aimed to describe the workings of the...

This paper discusses some aspects of the changing relationship between thestudy of economic history and development economics. Forty years ago thesubjects seemed to be quite closely linked in the sense that senior figuresstraddled both areas, the development history of the advanced countries...

The task of economic planning in the new nation of Nigeria in theearly 1960s tested the limits of economic technologies: its recipesfor development, its possibilities of measurement, and fromdifferences in political economy. These dimensions of the problembeset not only the Nigerian politicians...

Nach Erläuterung von Gegenstand, Zielen und Vorgehensweise wird im ersten Teil, Eigen- schaften der Wirtschafts- und Finanzordnung der natürlichen Welt, die Hypothese einer wohl funktionierenden Wirtschafts- und Finanzordnung in der natürlichen Welt begründet, die nicht bloß auf den...

Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die wirtschafts- und unternehmensethischen Arbeiten vonWilliam Baumol und rekonstruiert seine ökonomische Erklärung für die spektakulärenWachstumserfolge westlicher Marktwirtschaften.

In order to understand inefficient institutions, one needs to understand what mightcause the breakdown of a political version of the Coase Theorem. This paper considersan environment populated by ex-ante identical agents and develops a model of powerand distribution where institutions (the...

Das Interesse an Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) hat sowohl in der Öffentlichkeitals auch in Fachkreisen erkennbar zugenommen. Die stetig wachsendeZahl an Artikeln in Presse und Fachpublikationen belegt dies eindrücklich.1 Die gesteigerte Aufmerksamkeit für Corporate Social...