In den letzten Jahren hat sich in Deutschland die gesellschaftspolitische Diskussion ?ber die Finanzierbarkeit der Sozialversicherungssysteme zunehmend versch?rft. Der Autor stellte sich in Hinblick auf die Finanzierungsprobleme f?r die gesetzliche Krankenversicherung (GKV) daher die...

Although the initial allocation of pollution permits is neutral in terms of efficiency, itdoes have a significant impact on distributive equity. In this paper, we examine the twomain categories of permit allocation rules, the distributive and the reductive, for controllingphosphorus pollution in...

The relatively recent entry of multinational corporations (MNCs) into low-income markets, particularly in developing countries, affords the opportunity for the more inclusive capitalism envisioned by globalists. Alternatively, an expansion of MNC marketing in less developed economies might...

In their 1963 classic Scarcity and Growth Howard Barnett and Chandler Morse argued that resource scarcity did not threaten economic growth. A second investigation in the late 1970s, Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered, reached largely the same conclusion. The 25 years since that work was published...

Innovation is novelty - it involves doing new things in new ways. So new products, new processes, new organizational methods, new services, and so on, are all part of innovation. Technological innovation transforms and improves the technical attributes and performance characteristics of products...