Among other areas such as housing and urban renewal, economic development was seen as a key factor in the recovery in Leipzig. The City Department of Economic Development and the Economic Initiative Mitteldeutschland, a lobby group representing large regional employers, designed a cluster...

Europe is a continent of cities with a remarkable history of cultural inspiration, wealth creation, social andpolitical dynamism. But in the late-20th century, many former industrial cities entered a period of steep decline,losing most of their manufacturing jobs and many of their economic...

Der breitbandige Telekommunikationsanschluss für jedermann ist keine weit in die Zukunft reichende Vision, sondern eine beginnende Realität. Angebotsseitig können heute in Europa nahezu 100 % der Geschäftskunden und 80 - 95 % der privaten Haushalte einen breitbandigen Internetzugang...

Recently, Kleidon suggested a restatement of the Gaia hypothesis based on Maximum Entropyapproaches to the Earth system. Refuting conceptions of Gaia as a homeostatic system,Gaia is seen as a non-equilibrium thermodynamic system which continuously moves awayfrom equilibrium, driven by maximum...

China’s rise drives a growing impact of China on economics. So far, this mainly works via theforce of example, but there is also an emerging role of Chinese thinking in economics. Thispaper raises the question how far Chinese perspectives can affect certain foundational principlesin economics,...

Gesundheitswirtschaft und Kreativwirtschaft sind bereits heute Branchen, die die Volkswirtschaftin der Bundesrepublik maßgeblich prägen. Dabei bestehen zwischen beiden Sektorendeutliche Verflechtungen und Interdependenzen, von denen beide Branchen maßgeblichprofitieren. Ziel der vorliegenden...

This paper develops a simple model to analyze how a lack of politi-cal competition may lead to policies that hinder economic growth. Wetest the predictions of the model on panel data for the US states. Inthese data, we …nd robust evidence that lack of political competitionin a state is...

Dieser Beitrag enthält eine Rezension des im Jahr 2009 veröffentlichten wirtschaftshistorischen Buches von Jack A. Goldstone mit dem Titel: „Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History, 1500-1850“.

The aim of this paper is to account for both the short-run uctuations and thevery-long run transformations induced by technological change in analysing long-rungrowth patterns. The paper investigates the possible imprint left by short-run uctuationson the long run dynamics by aecting the...

The debate on the ontological foundations of evolutionary economics has reached a stagewhere discussions of these foundations are increasingly leading to the conclusion that there isa need to move from considerations of the general principles of evolutionary theory to thedevelopment of concrete...