Recent bouts of extreme price volatility in global agricultural markets portend rising and more frequent threats to world food security. A new Policy Brief of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization argues that countries should improve market functioning and equip themselves better to cope...

Globalization and monopolies lead towards stagnation. Paul Boccara emphasized this since the early 1970s. Some other great political economists of the instability of the international order, like Rosa Luxemburg and Otto Bauer, foresaw the dark clouds of major inner-capitalist wars on the...

The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows...

As a consequence of the global financial crisis Germany has experienced the deepest slowdown of its economy since World War II. However, at least up to now the German labor market has not shown a strong reaction to the financial crisis. Given the sharp decrease in GDP the levels of employment...

Each democratic nation with the Montesquieu Trias Politica separation of powers of the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary branches of government is advised to create an Economic Supreme Court as a fourth branch. The new UK Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) falls short of that and will...

During the economic crisis, a successful business is the one which answers to the tangible needs and produces benefits. Any business must offer practical solutions for the society problems. In the context of the economic crisis, it is vital to pay a special attention to the planning stage in...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the extension to what foreign banks reacted during recent crisis in supporting their subsidiaries and thus the host economies. The analysis focuses on a brief theoretical overview and an analysis in terms of foreign claims regarding selected Central and...

Recent several years of Polish metallurgy have seen deep changes and bothorganizational and ownership transformations. Steel companies, frequently subject to restructuringand continuous improvement in their operation, developed a highly competitive position in theEuropean market. The...

Although basic pension had for years failed to catch the imagination of policy makers in Greece, it was suddenly brought to the agenda in the context of the severe crisis raging since November 2009. In May 2010 the government committed to a harsh austerity programme, aiming at fiscal...

The global financial crisis, brewing for a while, really started to show its effects in the middle of 2007 and into 2008. On the positive side, some scientists think that the crisis will move people to use less energy and help limit carbon emissions. The global slowdown means people will have...