El objetivo de esta obra es analizar y defender veinte propuestas, cuya puesta en práctica, especialmente en Europa, permita una reforma del capitalismo que la crisis ha vuelto urgente y necesaria. El punto de partida es doble: 1. La vertiente financiera de la crisis, ligada al crédito...

In order to identify convergence patterns among the group of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) we analyze clusters of traditional OECD countries, i.e. EU-15 plus Norway and Switzerland, Anglo-Saxon non-EU countries plus Japan, and CEECs based on macro data on government regulation...

We explain economic growth by both politics, i.e. government activity including spending as well as regulation, and institutional quality and its interaction with politics. This extends previous work on institution building in transition by looking at its impact and, at the same time,...