Auf eine Anfrage der Wiener „Neue Freie Presse“ antwortete Walther Rathenau mit einem Beitrag über „Unser Nachwuchs“, der am 25. Dezember 1909 abgedruckt wurde. Im Unterschied zu anderen Führungsschichten erklärte der bekannte Industrielle und Unternehmer, dass die wirtschaftlichen...

The Chinese have let it be known since the death of Mao Zedong and the purge of the “Gang of Four” that they would in future draw on credits from foreign governments as well as other sources to finance imports of technology. According to western conjectures China’s capital requirements may...

The paper reviews what we know about the possibilities of designing and implementing policy measures that raise the contribution of the extractive industries' production/consumption links to economic growth and wellbeing, and reviews how policies pursued by various governments have succeeded. It...

There is a broad consensus that the quality of the political system and its institutions are fundamental for a country’s prosperity. The paper focuses on olitical events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in 1999 has helped insulate Italy’s financial...