This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...

This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in a broader sense. After an introduction to the topic, the first part of the dissertation elaborates on how institutional and political framework conditions influence the behavior...

Ludwig von Mises vertritt die Auffassung, dass es Freiheit ohne Marktwirtschaft oder Kapitalismus nicht geben kann. Sozialismus - auch der "weiche" Sozialismus des Interventions- und Wohlfahrtsstaates - ist in einer Gesellschaft freier Menschen unvereinbar und muss früher oder später...