Dieses Buch stellt den Staat als eine Aktiengesellschaft vor, die Leistungen, eingegangene Risiken und zukünftige Strategien gegenüber ihren Eigentümern in einem Geschäftsbericht darzustellen hat. Die Bürger treten als Anteilseigner und Aktionäre auf. Aufgeteilt in acht Geschäftsfelder...

The recent steel conflict between the USA and Europe has once again dramatically highlighted the close links between political and economic strategies in this field. The world-wide steel crisis has provoked permanent state intervention in the steel industry. The forms taken by this intervention...

Public sector employees are often said to have excessive rates of absence from work. Using representative survey data for Germany, we indeed find absenteeism of employees to be higher in the public than the private sector. The differences in the incidence and days of absence showing up in...

Public sector employees are often said to have excessive rates of absence from work. Using representative survey data for Germany, we indeed find absenteeism of employees to be higher in the public than the private sector. The differences in the incidence and days of absence showing up in...