Gerhard A. Ritters Standardwerk über Entstehung und Entwicklung des Sozialstaats seit der Frühen Neuzeit ist so aktuell wie nie. Die öffentlichen Debatten über Sozialtransfers, Gesundheitskosten und die angemessene Höhe von Hartz-IV-Leistungen schlagen hohe Wellen - nicht nur in...

The objective of this paper is to review the Fund's thinking about signaling since its inception, with a view to drawing lessons for the design of possible signaling mechanisms. Over the years, the Fund has both reflected on the ways in which its main activities - especially surveillance and use...

Empirical studies of antidumping activity focus almost exclusively on the period since 1980. This paper puts recent U.S. antidumping experience in historical context by studying the determinants of annual case filings over the past half century. The conventional view that few antidumping cases...

About the author -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Setting the scene : integral innovation -- Cultural innovation -- Eco-innovation -- Technological innovation -- Economic and business innovation -- Individual innovation -- Innovative communities and cities -- Organizational innovation --...

Chapter 1. Socialist catch-up lessons -- Chapter 2. Learning from Da Zhai in Agriculture, Raising the Zhanqi in the West -- Chapter 3. A rough start for village industry -- Chapter 4. The changing institutional environment and the structural expansion of village industries -- Chapter 5....