Die Globalisierung wird von der Politik als ein Problem dargestellt und von der Öffentlichkeit skeptisch betrachtet. Welche Erkenntnisse hat die Wirtschaftswissenschaft zum Phänomen „Globalisierung“? Sind die Probleme „Arbeitslosigkeit“ und „Krise der sozialen Sicherungssysteme“...

In this paper the political economy of revolutions is revisited, as it has been developed and applied in a number of publications by Acemoglu and Robinson. We criticize the fact that these authors abstract from collective-action problems and focus on inequality of income or wealth instead. In...

This paper revisits the relation between democracy, liberalization, and prosperity in transition countries, using a panel of 25 countries over 19 years. Earlier investigations found political and economic liberalization to be positively correlated whereas the relation between political...