This paper describes the role of private law and its founding principle of private autonomy in the modern consumer credit society. It shows that the financialisation of the economy and a conceivable shift from welfare to a «market state» has direct consequences for the regulation of consumer...

Innovation and small fast-growing knowledge-intensive enterprises are often described as a potential engine for development of rural economies of the post-socialistic countries, struggling with problem of depopulation, decline of agriculture, monostructural economic base, overexploitation of...