Results for "Pies, Ingo"

English summary: This volume deals with the innovative approaches of the economist William Baumol, whose works on entrepreneurship, environmental policy, competition and the dynamics of the market system are regarded as fundamental in economic theory and policy for the understanding and the...

English summary: Albert Hirschman crosses the borders between economic and political theory. He formulates the liberal perspective of Anglo-Saxon economics, deals with general socio-scientific research problems and studies the connection between the social structure and semantics. Originally a...

English summary: Douglass Cecil North is one of the leading social scientists of the 20th century. In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, along with Robert William Fogel. The approach taken by North focuses on the analysis of the change in social structures. His analyses center on...

English summary: Milton Friedman is one of the most prominent liberal theorists. His work on deals with monetary and fiscal policy, the privatization of schools by the introduction of vouchers, the ethics of profit seeking and problems of methodology. The papers collected in this book give a...

English summary: Ronald Coase has provided the social sciences with the insight that transaction costs are fundamental for understanding the working properties of institutions. This insight is of interdisciplinary importance and refers to organizations as well as to private contracts and public law...

English summary: Walter Eucken (1891-1950) was the founder of the Freiburg School. He was the main advocate of German ordoliberalism, a version of constitutional economics. In this volume, various authors analyze his fundamental conceptions of the market economy and of the state and deal with the...

English summary: Oliver Williamson's approach towards an economics of organization aims at a comparative analysis of markets, hierarchies and hybrid governance structures. This approach has been successfully applied to the organizational design of franchises, the financial structuring of firms and...

English summary: Unemployment continues to be one of the main problems of many societies - of free market economies also. Edmund Phelps is a prominent innovative economic thinker who analyzes problems of unemployment comprehensively. He delivered and delivers groundbreaking contributions to micro...