During the early modern age, shaping the mechanisms and guarantees of financial and commercial transactions was the basis for the expansion of commercial markets: the beginning of market globalization was due not only to the discovery of a new continent and new trade routes, but also to the...

Die deutsche Wirtschaft müht sich aus der Stagnation. Im kommenden Jahr dürfte die Wirtschaftsleistung wieder zulegen. Eine große konjunkturelle Dynamik ist aber nicht absehbar. Vor allem die recht kräftigen Zuwächse des real verfügbaren Einkommens werden den privaten Konsum anschieben....

Labour productivity distribution (dispersion) is studied within the framework of statistical physics and the result is compared with the outcome of the empirical analysis. Superstatistics is presented as a natural theoretical framework for the productivity distribution. The demand index ê is...