1. Origins of the economy as collective activity -- 2. Custom and path-dependence. Social capital as accumulation factor -- 3. The role of the state in economic development -- 4. Competition in Enlightenment economists -- 5. On the productiveness of welfare expenditures -- 6. Keynesian Policy...

The main objective of the present approach is, first of all, to analyse the "transaction costs" concept and then to prove scientifically the relation transaction costs – institutions.

The liberalisation of capital flows makes in the Romanian economy vulnerable to the important and presumably unstable capitals.

Research into tax increment financing (TIF) effectiveness has yielded mixed results, often under extensive controls. Until recently, no study had considered or controlled for the potential effects of internal management practices, including preproject planning and postimplementation performance...

Observers of state economic development policy in the United States have identified two conceptually distinct approaches, often termed industrial recruitment and entrepreneurial policies, and debated the extent to which a “third wave†of policy emergent during the 1990s represents a...