"Although colonies are often viewed as having been of crucial economic importance to Britain's empire, those responsible for administering the colonies were often not at all interested in or supportive of commercial ventures, as this book demonstrates. Based on extensive original research, and...

Im letzten Bericht der Institute vom Frühjahr 1996 wurde darauf verwiesen, daß sich erste Erfolge bei der geld- und fiskalpolitischen Stabilisierung noch nicht in realwirtschaftlichen Impulsen niedergeschlagen hatten. Die Institute hatten insbesondere auf die ausgeprägte Investitionsschwäche...

In this paper, I analyze the causes of the prolonged slowdown of the Japanese economy in the 1990s and find that the stagnation of investment, especially private fixed investment, was the primary culprit. I then investigate the causes of the stagnation of household consumption during the 1990s...