How has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the United States economy, focusing on the...

The Subprime Challenge -- Why a Free and Democratic Society Needs Law -- Why Consumer Protection Promotes the Free Market -- Why Private Property Needs a Legal Infrastructure -- Why Conservatives Like Regulation and Liberals Like Markets -- Democratic Liberty

Michael Crew and David Parker have compiled a comprehensive, up-to-date and detailed analytical work on leading research issues in the economics of regulation. With contributions from international specialists in economic regulation, the Handbook provides a comprehensive discussion of major...

Das Vorhaben, über das hier zu berichten ist, geht auf eine Anregung des Max-Planck-Instituts fürGesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) im Frühjahr 2003 zurück, die von der VolkswagenStiftung aufgegriffenund als Projekt finanziell gefördert wurde. Ausgangspunkt war die Beobachtung, dass in den...

The institutional governance approach sees national economies embedded in a bundle of non-market types of coordination (e.g. corporate hierarchies, networks, associations and the state). Governance oriented research explores configurations of governance types in sectoral, regional and national...