Der Autor, Professor für Ökonomie an der Budapester Universität, zieht zunächst Bilanz aus den Transformationsprozessen der letzten zehn Jahre in Ungarn, stellt positive und negative Tendenzen dar. Als wesentliches Problem gilt die Absicherung des Lebensstandards der Bevölkerung, wogegen...

This essay attempts to go beyond presenting the bits and pieces of – still ongoing – crisis management in the EU. Instead it attempts at finding the ’red thread’ behind a series of politcally improvized decisions. Our fundamental research question asks, if basic economic lessons learned...

This chapter is a revised version of a keynote addressing an international gathering of scholars. It was convened to provoke a broad and sincere exchange on new dimensions of state activism as seen through sectoral and country experiences, basically anchored in empirical analyses. What we do in...