The paper refers to Kolodko's new and innovative look at economics and its contemporary aims. The paper is composed of three parts. The first, methodological part includes a discussion of the ultimate aims of economic sciences with the consideration of special features of its subject (economy):...

The literature on economic systems and corresponding empirical studies have largely focused on a classification for developed countries, while other world regions have only partly been included and/or not compared to established OECD prototypes on an income-adjusted basis. In our macro...

The literature on economic systems and corresponding empirical studies have largely focused on a classification for developed countries, while other world regions have only partly been included and/or not compared to established OECD prototypes on an income-adjusted basis. In our macro...

Uncertainty is endemic to innovative economies and complex societies, but policymakers underestimate how damaging this is for many of their guiding assumptions. In particular, the discourse of best practice, "global solutions for global problems," and regulatory harmonization becomes...

The increasing dominance of finance starting in the late 1970s/early 1980s in the US and the UK, and somewhat later in other countries, was associated with two fundamental and structural processes generating the contradictions of this phase of development and finally the financial and economic...

In order to identify convergence patterns among the group of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) we analyze clusters of traditional OECD countries, i.e. EU-15 plus Norway and Switzerland, Anglo-Saxon non-EU countries plus Japan, and CEECs based on macro data on government regulation...

Most studies on the relationship between public debt and economic growth implicitly assume homogeneous debt effects across their samples. We - in accordance with recent literature - challenge this view and state that there likely is a great deal of cross-country heterogeneity in that...

The purpose of the article is to determine barriers and preconditions for reducing the differences in the level of development in the global economy’s countries and to develop recommendations for solving the problem of the global economy’s economic systems unification. In order to determine...

The purpose of this article is to classify existing approaches to analyzing theoretical and methodological aspects of innovation development in modern economic systems. We also present a new approach based on existing ones that combines advantages, eliminates drawbacks, and offers means of...

This paper deals with the challenges associated with the generation of a social accounting matrix (SAM) in conditions where up-to-date measured data are particularly scarce and provides future researchers of economic systems with the first SAM for Iraq. It delivers a unique and updated...

Prologue -- Listening to the Silenced -- Part I: Introduction to Olympian Political Economy -- Property -- In Praise of the Homo Faber -- Interlude -- Olympianism and Democracy -- Unity in Democratic Action -- Part II: Olympian Culture System -- Ecumenism, Conviviality, and the Modality of...

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Chapter 1. Understanding Business-Government Relations in China: Changes, Causes and Consequences -- Chapter 2. Business-State Relations in China’s Changing Economic Order -- Chapter 3. The Evolution of Government-MNC Relations in China: The Case of the Automotive Sector -- Chapter 4. Regional...

Preface -- The foundations of economic analysis -- Death by bureaucrat -- Innovation -- Flying the friendly skies? -- The mystery of wealth -- The economics of exclusion -- Supply and demand -- Sex, booze, and drugs -- The economics of obesity -- Kidneys for sale -- Are we running out of water?...

Introduction -- Red communism -- Politics in command -- Mao Zedong -- White communism -- Markets -- Xi Jinping -- Great debate -- Red versus white -- Liberal versus illiberal -- Beyond communism -- Liberal democracy -- Globalism -- Confucius -- Choosing sides -- Prospects

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. Transdisciplinary Foundations for Contemporary Social and Economic Transformation -- Chapter 2. In Search of a New Compass in the Great Transition: Towards Co-Designing the Urban Space We Care About -- Chapter 3. Navigating the Great Transition via...

This paper compares trends in key economic, political and social development outcomes in the Philippines with those of Latin America, particularly since the 1990s. To do so, it uses standard indicators of development, including measures of institutional quality and good governance. The paper...

Vor 25 Jahren trat die Währungs-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialunion zwischen der Bundesrepublik und der damaligen DDR in Kraft. Direkt nach der Wende 1990 hatte Ostdeutschland ökonomisch rasch aufgeholt. Unterschiede in der Wirtschaftskraft zwischen Ost und West bleiben jedoch bis heute bestehen,...

Human economies and ecosystems form a coupled system coevolving in time and space, since human economies use ecosystems services and at the same time affect ecosystems through their production and consumption activities. The study of the interactions between human economies and ecosystems is...

This short essay examines the proposition that the transition process to a capitalist economic system in Eastern and Central European nations has introduced greater income inequality than in long-time capitalist nations at similar stages of development. In the empirical analysis I use comparable...

Most studies on the relationship between public debt and economic growth implicity assume homegenous debt effects across their samples. We - in accordance with recent literature - challenge this view and state that there likely is a great deal of cross-country heterogeneity in that relationship....

A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific aspect of the relevance of culture: its relationship to institutions. We review work with a theoretical, empirical,...

Variations of order in a new market context -- Changing meaning of bazaar trade in Central Asia -- Organizing collectively : founding a trade union at Dordoi Bazaar -- Adapting to bazaar ownership : business as diplomacy -- Centralizing to modernize : municipal law and order at Osh Bazaar --...

Kuba bemüht sich um eine stärkere Einbindung in internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen, nachdem die Eiszeit im Verhältnis zu den USA während der Obama-Ära zu Ende gegangen ist. Programmatisch hält sich Havanna dabei an seine 2011 verabschiedeten »Leitlinien« zur Aktualisierung des...