Concern with social exclusion and neighbourhood renewal has often focused on economic regeneration and new ways of stimulating employment or self-employment in local economies. One recent initiative has been to raise private money through a bond with the social aim of creating local employment....

Both China and Vietnam are undergoing a social experiment as they diverge from the path of their Soviet compatriots and attempt transition to a 'socialist market mechanism'. The economic reform in both countries aims towards the so-called 'third way' between the failed command economies and the...

Presented at the Conference about Transition to a Market Economy in Baltic States, in Bergen, Norway, 1994. The paper gives an overview of diverse views on three basic questions: 1) Why did Communism collapse? 2)Why the transition to the Market Economy has been so difficult? and 3)Why some...

This is a brief but critical survey of the life and accomplishments of the Czech economist Ota Sik. He joint Communist Youth organization already before the WWII. During the war, he was in the Mauthausen concentration camp, together with the future secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party...

A new authoritarian order is taking shape, this time within rather than against the capitalist world order. Globalization, in short, is shedding its liberal cloak. Post–Cold War triumphalism was premature in the funeral it staged for the Second World, defined in terms of its autocracy...

Concern with social exclusion and neighbourhood renewal has often focused on economic regeneration and new ways of stimulating employment or selfemployment in local economies. One recent initiative has been to raise private money through a bond with the social aim of creating local employment....

This paper analyses Luigi Pasinetti’s evaluation of the meaning, importance and outcomes of the Keynesian revolution and the role played by the most important of the Cambridge Keynesians; it also considers the results of his attempt to complete John Maynard Keynes’ and Piero Sraffa’s...