Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der Kritik an weiterem Wirtschaftswachstum zum einen und mit der Kritik am Bruttoinlandsprodukt als Wohlstandsindikator zum anderen. Anlass ist die Einsetzung der Enquetekommission „Wachstum, Wohlstand, Lebensqualität“ durch die Bundesregierung,...

It is argued that the stronger member states of the European Monetary Union should find their way out of the Euro in order to avoid being dragged into a disastrous course of inflation and over-indebtedness by the weaker members. A sudden exit would presumably cause financial turmoil as well as...

This volume is the first ever English translation of Part III of von Thünen`s famous 'Isolated State'. It deals with the optimum rotation period of woods – a central problem of capital theory which has been studied by many famous economists. Thünen's early approach to the problem compares...