The Eastern European countries have been trying to move to a market economy for the last six years. Most advice has been to go immediately to a fully capitalist market economy, but the difficulty of this route has become clear. No country has succeeded in making this great leap, and the attempt...

Decisions by the Bush administration and others, in choosing whether to invade Iraq, deciding on how to invade Iraq, and thinking about the chances for "rule of law" there, can be analyzed using law and economics. The results are mixed, suggesting that other factors were used by the Bush...

This paper uses the European Working Conditions Surveys to examine the intensity of work for male and female employees. The first section gives an overview of the usefulness of the survey for examining European Union (EU) working conditions and shows how women's intensity of work has been...

Despite its significance in monetary history, the Maria Theresa thaler (or taler) is little known outside numismatic circles. The paper describes this coin’s history, which the paper argues is the reverse to the obverse of the rise of national monies. The coin circulated in Africa, the Levant...