Aim of this paper is to describe the present status of using statistics by metropolitan and regional governments in the Federal Republic of Germany FRG in order to promote or prevent special decisions. Methodological approach is: Exemplarily it is focused an actual planning procedure going over...

Aim of this paper is to describe the present status of using social indicators within planning and decision procedures of public administrations in the Federal Republic of Germany. Methodological approach is: Exemplarily it is focused an actual planning procedure going over several years but now...

Der heutige Vortrag zum Thema Warum scheint die Sonne? Ökonomische Mutmaßungen über Zukunft und Herkunft irdischen Lebens ist der fünfte und letzte einer Reihe von öffentlichen Vorträgen in einer für Nichtfachleute nachvollziehbaren Form im November und Dezember dieses Jahres im Berliner...

In spring 2010 the Euro-crisis culminated with the threatening state insolvency of Greece and Ireland. By high billion credits to both member states European Union provided an emergency fund (750 bn Euro) to avoid a similar shock like with the breakdown of US-bank Lehman Brothers and to avoid a...

The German railway project “Stuttgart-Ulm” is part of the high-speed line between Paris/France and Budapest/Hungary as well as Bratislava/Slovakia. It includes the parts “Stuttgart 21” (abbreviation of “Stuttgart in 21st century”) and the new railway-line Wendlingen-Ulm (to cross the...