This collection aims to critically examine the new global policy of 'Good Governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book will redress the balance

This new collection critically examines the new global policy of 'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and exactly what that means, under the...

Das Buch der Stunde: Wie kämpfen wir gegen die Auswüchse des Kapitalismus? Seit dem Crash von 2008 ist es nicht gelungen, den Kapitalismus wirksam zu reformieren. Ganz im Gegenteil, er droht vollends aus dem Ruder zu laufen: Die Finanzindustrie schreibt sich ihre eigenen Regeln; die grossen...

Introduction : how do you solve a problem like global finance? -- The role of finance in society : from barter to Fintech -- 21st century post-crisis finance : stability and sustainability as new 'meta' norms or market re-emergence? -- Financial regulation in (global) context -- A 'micro'...

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases citizens' support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy relies on the restriction of the sample to...

The article presents an empirical study of the legitimation of the market economy in the public sphere and examines whether criticism of the market economy has increased as a result of the euro crisis. The research results support the hypothesis of a transformation of the legitimacy basis for...

Why does the state not only need the market economy, but the market economy also the state? How does prosperity originate? In 12 theses, Kaspar Villiger gives a summary of his 46 years as a businessman, a member of the administrative board of global groups, minister of defence and finance as...