The aim of the paper is twofold. First, we try to fill a theoretical gap inevolutionary economics by developing some key elements of an evolutionary theory of social stratification that explicitly link the generation of technological and institutional novelty to the structural evolution of...

The almost topical so-called Information Revolution has actually became The Knowledge Revolution. What made it possible to automate processes is not the machine - that is just the trigger. As form of reorganization of traditional work, based on centuries of experience, the well-known concept of...

In den USA wird ein stark ansteigender Teil der Handelsumsätze im Wege des Electronic Shopping von Konsumenten über das World Wide Web abgewickelt. Folgt die Entwicklung in Deutschland diesem Trend, so sind nachhaltige Strukturveränderungen für Handelsunternehmen zu erwarten. Aufgrund der...

Newly developed and advanced methods for nonlinear time series analysis are in general not available in standard software packages. Moreover, their implementation requires substantial time, computing power as well as programming skills. The recent results on lag and bandwidth selection methods...

Empirical evidence shows that the perception of information is strongly concentrated in those environments in which a mass of producers and users of knowledge interact through a distribution medium. This paper considers the consequences of this fact for economic equilibrium analysis. In...

[Preface:] The world we are living in is in continuous transition. Although the history of humanity dates back around 300.000 years and humanity has always experienced transition, the processes of transition have intensified and densified exponentially like over that period of time. While only...

The deadline for securing an extension to the ongoing Brexit transition is nearing fast. If the UK government refuses to request an extension now, what are the options to secure more time after the end of June deadline under the Withdrawal Agreement has elapsed? Looking at the different...

This study empirically investigates the short- to medium-term effects of fiscal policy on output and other macroeconomic variables in European Union countries between 1995 and 2012, with particular reference to transition countries. It applies Panel Vector Auto Regression with recursive...