Das Lehrbuch Volkswirtschaftslehre 1 prasentiert eine leicht verstandliche und moderne Einfuhrung in die volkswirtschaftliche Theorie und Politik. Es werden die Grundlagen der Nationalokonomie erlautert, die vor allem fur Studierende der Anfangssemester an Hochschulen und Wirtschaftsakademien von groer Bedeutung sind. Basierend auf einer Erklarung elementarer Begriffe und Prinzipien der Volkswirtschaftslehre befat sich der zweite und dritte Teil des Buches mit den groen Teilgebieten dieses Faches, namlich der Mikro- und der Makrookonomie. Der gesamte Lehrstoff wird durch Graphiken und...

Mikrookonomisch fundierte Einfuhrung: Sie zeigt, wie man auch ohne Vorkenntnisse der Produktionsfunktion zu Aussagen uber die produktive Effizienz kommen kann. Die Autoren stellen den Ansatz der nichtparametrischen Frontierfunktionsanalyse vor und erweitern ihn uber verschiedene Schritte. Diese Schritte umfassen die Analyse verschiedener Formen variabler Skalenertrage und die Ermittlung der produktivsten Unternehmensgrosse.

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The general theme of the 10th International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society Conf- ence, held during June 9th 12th, 2004 at Universita Luigi Bocconi, Milan, was the exploration of the dynamics of industries driven by the highly interrelated processes of innovation and of structural transformation. The phenomena addressed are at the core of Schumpeter s work and the discussion of these endogenously created modes of change constitutes one of the major Schumpeterian legacies of today. Indeed, the in?uence of the Schumpeterian approach to economic dynamics is far reaching and covers evolutionary as...

Silicon Valley is the most salient example of high-tech industrial clusters. Public policymakersthroughouttheworldwouldliketolearnthesecretsofSiliconValley in order to build their own high-tech economies. The existing literature on ind- trial clusters, which traces back to Marshall (1920), focuses on the way in which ?rms bene't from locating in a cluster; it suggests that once a cluster comes into existence, it tends to reinforce itself by attracting more ?rms. However, a more important question is how to reach this critical mass in the ?rst place. In contrast to the literature, evidence...

Silicon Valley is the most salient example of high-tech industrial clusters. Public policymakersthroughouttheworldwouldliketolearnthesecretsofSiliconValley in order to build their own high-tech economies. The existing literature on ind- trial clusters, which traces back to Marshall (1920), focuses on the way in which ?rms bene't from locating in a cluster; it suggests that once a cluster comes into existence, it tends to reinforce itself by attracting more ?rms. However, a more important question is how to reach this critical mass in the ?rst place. In contrast to the literature, evidence...

Joseph Schumpeter oscillated in his view about the type of economic system that was most conducive to growth. In his 1911 treatise, Schumpeter argued that a more decentralized and turbulent industry structure where the pro cess of creative destruction was triggered by vigorous entrepreneurial ac tivity was the engine of economic growth. But by 1942 Schumpeter had modified his theory, arguing instead that a more centralized and stable industry structure was more conducive to growth. According to Schum peter (1942, p. 132), under the managed economy there was little room for entrepreneurship...

The general theme of the 10th International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society Conf- ence, held during June 9th 12th, 2004 at Universita Luigi Bocconi, Milan, was the exploration of the dynamics of industries driven by the highly interrelated processes of innovation and of structural transformation. The phenomena addressed are at the core of Schumpeter s work and the discussion of these endogenously created modes of change constitutes one of the major Schumpeterian legacies of today. Indeed, the in?uence of the Schumpeterian approach to economic dynamics is far reaching and covers evolutionary as...

In einem Zwei-Lander Aussenhandelsmodell ricardianischer Provenienz werden der Einfluss international unterschiedlicher Technologieniveaus sowie verschiedener Arten technischen Fortschritts auf das Einkommen und die Aussenhandelsstruktur der Handelspartner wirkungsanalytisch untersucht. Im Zentrum stehen der Prozess- und der Produktfortschritt als jeweils verschiedene Spielarten des Catch-up bzw. Forging-ahead. Die traditionelle aussenhandelstheoretische Analyse technischen Fortschritts, ausschliesslich verstanden als Verbesserung der Produktionstechnologie, wird so um den Produktfortschritt...

For as long as one can remember, the edifice of the neoclassical economic syn thesis has been under attack. Critiques have focused on the extreme unreality of the assumptions that underpin the Arrow-Debreu theorems of welfare economics. They have queried the excessive formalism of the edifice, and the lack of practical significance of many of the results.They have castigated the neoclassical synthesis for its internal incoherence (lacking an independent theory of capital, for example, one of the favorite topics of the Cambridge school), its lack of a dynamic element, its non-evolutionary...

The twelve papers in this collection grew out of the workshop on "Eco nomic Evolution, Learning, and Complexity" held at the University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany on May 23-25, 1997. The Augsburg workshop was the second of two events in the Euroconference Series on Evolutionary Economics, the first of which was held in Athens, Greece in September 1993. A special issue of the Journal of Evolutionary Econo mics (1993(4)) edited by Yannis Katsoulacos on "Evolutionary and Neo classical Perspectives on Market Structure and Economic Growth" con tains selected papers from the Athens conference....