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Sir Samuel Brittan, the doyen of British economic journalists, explores the connections between economics, ethics, and politics while assessing the merits and defects of capitalism in this post-socialist era.

This publication presents an overview of current practices of 43 countries in measuring the non-observed economy - those activities that are illegal or hidden from authorities to avoid paying tax or social security contributions. It focuses on the description of methods used and includes quantitative examples and estimates of the share of non-observed economy in the GDP of different countries. Statisticians have developed a range of techniques to estimate the informal, illegal and underground ac...

After the financial collapse of 2008 and the bailing out of banks in the US and the UK, the long-term viability of the neoliberal doctrine has come under new scrutiny. The elimination of regulatory control, the financialization of the economy including the growth of increasingly complex financial innovations, and the dominance of a rentier class have all been subject to thorough criticism. Despite the unexpected meltdown of the financial system and the substantial costs for restoring the finance...

The US is facing enormous challenges as it enters the second decade of the twenty-first century. Some of these major issues are environmentalism and its claim of global warming; the danger from terrorism generated by Islamic fundamentalism; and affordable, quality health care. Additionally, education in America remains an unresolved dilemma contributing to America's lack of economic competitiveness. Andrew Bernstein argues that the US government is pushing the nation toward socialism in its att...

How multinationals contribute, or don't, to global prosperity.Globalization and multinational corporations have long seemed partners in the enterprise of economic growth: globalization-led prosperity was the goal, and giant corporations spanning the globe would help achieve it. In recent years, however, the notion that all economies, both developed and developing, can prosper from globalization has been called into question by political figures and has fueled a populist backlash around the world...

Freedom, Opportunity, and Security is a book on government economic policy which will have some appeal to both sides of the political divide. The book starts from basic principles to develop the case for a free economy, and then presents the case for policies to provide opportunity and security. However, all policies are subject to the reality constraint that the average real wage equals the average level of productivity. Downing's incisive analysis considers many questions in regard to economic...

The balance of economic power in Europe is shifting eastwards. Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania have all seen increases in their contributions to international trade and in the rate of GDP growth, whilst other countries have seen declines, and firms in these Central and Eastern European economies are becoming increasingly influential participants in international production systems, centred largely on Germany. This book presents an up-to-date, theoretically informed analysis of h...

A brilliant book which studies the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization. The book analyzes the connection between the spread of Calvinism and a new attitude toward the pursuit of wealth in post-Reformation Europe and England, and attitude which permitted, encouraged-even sanctified-the human quest for prosperity.

Rucklaufige Absatzzahlen und eine steigende Wettbewerbsintensitat auf dem Heimatmarkt veranlassen immer mehr deutsche Brauereien, ihre internationalen Aktivitaten auszuweiten. Eine systematische Strategieplanung wird dabei zunehmend zur unverzichtbaren Erfolgsvoraussetzung der internationalen Expansion. In dieser Arbeit wird daher ein umfassendes Konzept internationaler Marketingstrategien vorgestellt und der Einsatz alternativer Strategien in der Brauwirtschaft diskutiert. Mittels einer empiris...

What makes a society innovative?   Tracing the story of five great civilizations, from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, to the Middle East, Europe, the United States and China, this book will tell you. History offers us a model and lessons for what can be done right, and it shows how once mighty and innovative societies can fall. The story here departs from pundits who believe that the Western or American-style political and legal system is uni­versally best for economic success. At various ti...

In der betriebswirtschaftlichen Literatur befassen sich zahlreiche konkurrierende Ansatze mit dem Thema Unternehmensentwicklung. Bislang konnte sich keine der Forschungsrichtungen durchsetzen. Auch die empirischen Untersuchungen blieben ohne eindeutigen Befund, weil die Hypothesen in den Entwicklungsmodellen haufig unprazise sind, die eingesetzten Untersuchungsplane nur bedingt geeignet waren oder weil die Datenbestande nicht alle relevanten Bereiche abdecken. In dieser Arbeit werden Erhebungsko...

Das Interesse an dem Phanomen -Infrastruktur- erlebt in letzter Zeit - nicht zuletzt im Zuge der deutschen Wiedervereinigung - eine Renaissance, sowohl in der offentlichen Diskussion als auch in der wissenschaftlichen Forschung. Aus betriebswirtschaftlicher Perspektive stehen dabei die offentlichen, privaten und gemischtwirtschaftlichen Unternehmen, die in den Infrastrukturbereichen tatig sind, und die Markte, auf denen sie agieren, im Mittelpunkt. Ausgewahlte Infrastrukturmarkte wie die Telekom...

Seit Ende der 60er Jahre verliert die amerikanische Wirtschaft zunehmend an Wettbewerbskraft. Kein Verlust einer wirtschaftlichen Vormachtstellung aber schmerzte die USA so wie der ihrer Automobilindustrie, da diese als Schlusselindustrie von grossem nationalem Interesse gilt. Spatestens zu Beginn der 70er Jahre wurden die USA als weltgrosster Automobilhersteller von Japan abgelost. Ein Ende dieses seit Jahren anhaltenden Siechtums der einstigen Paradeindustrie der USA war auch Ende der 80er Jah...

What should be done to resolve the climate crisis? Daniel Tanuro argues that government measures - eco-taxes, commodification of natural resources and carbon trading - do not tackle the main problem: the drive for profit. Evidence from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other sources demonstrates the impossibility of a sustainable "green capitalism." Green Capitalism includes a critique of popular writers on the environmental crisis, ranging from Jared Diamond to Hans Jonas, and i...

A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes-and failures-of free-market economicsSince 1946, Henry Hazlitt's bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything. But one-lesson economics tells only half the story. It can explain why markets often work so well, but it can't explain why they often fail so badly-or what we should do when they stumble. As Nobel Pr...