Monetäre Sozialleistungen verteilen die privaten Ansprüche an das Sozialprodukt neu. Aus makroökonomischer Sicht treffen die Soziallasten im Wesentlichen die Arbeitnehmer, die zugunsten der Transferempfänger real auf Konsum verzichten müssen. Die Unternehmer profitieren von der...

The chapter goes over the main stages in the development of Quesnay’s Tableau Économique. The traditional interpretation of this development as a fundamentally continuous process of clarification and elaboration is confirmed. By discussing the opposite view, however, a clearer picture of the...

Aggregated Social Accounting Matrices (SAMs) will be built for the Portuguese economy in 1997, 1998 and 1999, based on the country's national accounts statistics. The SAMs will be shown as a working instrument for quantifying the flows in the economic circuit and for simulating the effects...