Books reviewed in this article: S. N. Afriat - The Market. Equilibrium, Stability, Mythology. Hazel Bateman, Geoffrey Kingston and John Piggott - Forced Saving: Mandating Private Retirement Incomes. Jagdish Bhagwati (ed.) - Going Alone - The Case for Relaxed Reciprocity in Freeing Trade. Boeri...

The present paper demonstrates that certain early monetary developments observed in the West since the Peloponnesian War about 400 B.C., but also in China can only e explained with the help of three economic theories called "Gresham's Law”, “Thiers' Law” and “The Monetary Approach to the...

A difference is made between open and hidden or veiled government bankruptcies. The latter are happening if budget deficits are covered by substantial money creation leading to inflation. In this case non-indexed government debt loses its value and is inflated away. This path is not open, if the...

Books reviewed: Bhagwati, Jagdish The Winds of the Hundred Days Costanza, Robert, John Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland und Richard Norgaard Einfuhrung in die Okologische Okonomik Fogel, Robert William The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism Frey, Bruno S. Inspiring...

In this paper the inflations occurring in Balkan Nations in the wake of the First World War as well as the four hyperinflation hitting them in Greece, Yugoslavia, Serbia-Montenegro and Bulgaria between 1944 to 1996 are analyzed and compared. It is shown that they were all caused by substantial...

Starting from a discussion of Schumpeter's analysis of the relationships of capitalism, socialism and democracy, it is shown that, in a complex society, democracy is only compatible with a decentralized market economy with safe property rights. But in time democracy shows a tendency to weaken...

This volume confronts an important historical hypothesis with empirical evidence from selected periods of history. The hypothesis in question states that competition among political and legal organisations in developing rules has been a crucial condition for liberty, innovation and growth in the...

Papiergeldinflation, Preise, das Gresham-Gesetz und Wechselkurse im China der Mingzeit In diesem Artikel wird die Papiergeldinflation der Mingzeit (1368 – 1448) mit der Absicht analysiert festzustellen, ob die Theorie eines kompletten Inflationskreislaufs lediglich auf in der westlichen...