Economic Systems, Institutions and Scarcity -- Scarcity, Institutions and Economic Behavior -- The Rise of Capitalism -- The Rise of Socialism -- The Private-Property Free-Market Economy -- Basic Institutions of Capitalism -- Exchange in a Private Property Capitalist Economy -- Production in a...

One: History of the Development of the Mutual Fund Industry -- Investment Companies -- Pre-1940 -- 1940 to 1970 -- 1970 to the Present -- Conclusions -- Two: Regulation of the Mutual Fund Industry -- Background -- Investment Company Act of 1940 -- The 1970 Amendments -- Recent Regulatory...

The European Monetary System -- The contribution of agriculture protection to European integration -- Fiscal policy in the EEC — some recent developments -- Regional policy -- Energy policy -- European industrial policy against the background of the single European act -- Conclusions --...

One: Checks and Balances in the Supply of Government Policies -- The organization of competition in congressional and parliamentary governments -- Political checks and balances and the structure of taxation in the United States and Canada -- Competition within the Italian Public Sector -- Two:...

1. The new international setting -- 2. Objectives of the study -- 3. Focus of the study -- 4. Terminology -- 5. Remaking the global economic framework? -- 6. A Guide through the volume -- 1: Eastern Europe in transition -- 1. On the meanings of the CMEA -- 2. Recent developments in CMEA...

In Südafrika werden verschiedene monetäre Methoden zur Berechnung des Wachstums des informellen Sektors der Wirtschaft verwandt, die jedoch zu teilweise sehr unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen kommen. Der vorliegende Beitrag erklärt die unterschiedlichen Ansätze und führt entsprechende Messungen...