Modernity is usually thought as a complex society with clearly differentiated spheres of everyday life. It means, in particular, that economic rules do not interfere with the norms structuring political, social, scientific and other interactions. The complex, differentiated society sharply...

We present a simple model that illustrates how democracy may improve the quality of economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracy on institutional quality is increasing...

We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...

Im Zuge einer sich dramatisch verschärfenden Wirtschaftslage zerbrachen Ende der 80er Jahre die politischen und wirtschaftlichen Strukturen der bis dahin kommunistisch regierten Länder Mittel- und Osteuropas. Angesichts des Scheiterns der zentralverwaltungswirtschaftlichen Ordnung blieb als...

In this report the actual state of the economic and structural development, the progress towards establishing a market economy, and the provision of infrastructure in the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania after five years of independence is analysed. According to a set of relevant...