Die Frage nach sozialer Gerechtigkeit bleibt aktuell – auch und gerade in »modernen« europäischen Gesellschaften. Denn der Kapitalismus erzeugt neben Wohlstand für wenige auch viel Armut und Leid, in Deutschland und der ganzen Welt. Diese Ungerechtigkeit ist heute eng verbunden mit der...

(1) Background: Any disturbance in the pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC) can disrupt the supply of medicines and affect the efficiency of health systems. Due to shortages in the global pharma supply chain over the past few years and the complex nature of free trade and its limitations when...

In this essay, I analyze the nationalization of large copper mines during Salvador Allende's socialist government in Chile in the 1970s. This is one of the earliest cases "nationalization without compensation." Chile's legal argument was based on the novel idea that "adequate" payment should be...

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) have been declining in numbers in most industries. However, in the oil and gas industry, state-owned national oil companies (NOCs) continue to secure dominant positions in most of the oil-producing countries. In some instances, energy-exporting countries conducted...

The study of urban and local politics in the United States has long been hindered by a lack of centralized sources of election data. We introduce a new dataset of nearly 55,000 electoral contests that encompasses races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities...

"The People's Money shows how sovereign money creation through public banking, as pioneered by nineteenth century American populists, can reduce inequalities of wealth and power and help restore prosperity and democracy in America."

Die Frage nach sozialer Gerechtigkeit bleibt aktuell - auch und gerade in "modernen" europäischen Gesellschaften. Denn der Kapitalismus erzeugt neben Wohlstand für wenige auch viel Armut und Leid, in Deutschland und der ganzen Welt. Diese Ungerechtigkeit ist heute eng verbunden mit der...

Kinship ties are a common institution that may facilitate in-group coordination and cooperation. Yet their benefits - or lack thereof - depend crucially on the broader institutional environment. We study how the prevalence of clan ties affect how communities confronted two well-studied...

"Most histories of economic life explore how markets are built. This book looks instead at how they have been dismantled. Soon after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, they began the process of transforming the economy, and indeed all of society, in accordance with communist ideology....

The renationalisation of rail infrastructure has not been a success. Network Rail has been plagued by crisis after crisis, with major projects hit by delays, mismanagement and large cost overruns. Its problems echo those suffered by the inefficient nationalised industries of the post-war period....

In the face of deepening economic precarity, Americans have been turning to one another for informal support. What is the value of this collectivist safety net? Through a combination of anthropology and economics, this study introduces a way to measure collectivist practices. Applying this...

Government must step back from energy markets to lower pricesSummary:For a short period, around the turn of the millennium, the UK energy market was highly competitive, offering choice to consumers and keeping prices in check. Since then, governments have reverted to centralised action,...

Diskussionen über »den« Kapitalismus, die ihm innewohnende Kraft sowie die aus ihm resultierenden Probleme sind in unserer »Gesellschaft des Spektakels« allgegenwärtig. Und obgleich sich ein nicht unerheblicher Teil der politischen Eliten, der Medienmacher, Kirchenoberhäupter oder...

Non Performing Assets affect the profitability, liquidity and competitive functioning of banks and developmental financial institutions and finally the psychology of the bankers in respect of their nature towards credit delivery and credit expansion. The present paper is to analyse the assets...

The present study is to analyse the liquidity of the selected nationalised banks in India. The present study is used exploratory-cum-descriptive research design. Sample of the ten nationalised banks i.e., Andra Bank, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, Canara Bank, Corporation Bank, Dena Bank, Indian...

Absent of managerial efficiency the business does not have direction and control on its objectives. The improved managerial efficiency can lead to increased profits and investments through productive cycle. The present paper is to analyse the managerial efficiency of the selected nationalised...

Prior literature shows that high leverage is associated with losses in market share due to unfavorable actions by customers and competitors. Building on this literature, we investigate the effect of collectivism on the product market performance of highly leveraged firms. Using a sample of 46...

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) have been declining in numbers in most industries. However, in the oil and gas industry, state-owned national oil companies (NOCs) continue to secure dominant positions in most of the oil-producing countries. In some instances, energy-exporting countries conducted...

This Article identifies a disturbing trend: wildlife management agencies permitting landowners to shift threatened and endangered species from their native habitat on commercially valuable land to public land, land in foreign countries, and even captive breeding facilities. Surprisingly, this...

In 2011, the Indian state made it mandatory to label all packaged food products to indicate whether they are vegetarian (green/veg) or non-vegetarian (brown/non-veg). Given the rise of a consumer culture relying on super/hypermarkets, these labels are now ubiquitous on packaging throughout...