The article examines the peculiarities of the exercise of freedom of contract and freedom of entrepreneurial activity by state-owned enterprises in the USSR under the conditions of the state monopoly in the production of property goods, planned regulation of production and administrative-command...

Critics assert that globalization is detrimental to the environment because it encourages location of poluting industries in countries with low environmenta regulations. We suggest that globalization might also have positive environmental effects because global ties increase self-regulation...