Overcrowding,a disease of social growth

Overcrowding satisfies the physician's criteria for a disease—of society, caused by the lack of a doctrine for the future. This article is a clinical examination of the disease, its symptoms, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment.     

A Multisectoral Econometric Model with Markets for Commodities and Financial Assets

The paper illustrates a multisector econometric model for the Federal Republic of Germany. A new model concept has been realized in two respects. First the model combines a disaggregated real system with a disaggregated monetary system. Second, both systems are disaggregated functionally (commodities) and institutionally (industries). This demands a specific theoretical structure and an appropriate database.; First a synopsis of the theoretical structure of the model is given. Afterwards an ex post solution of the model is discussed, which shows that the system works. Finally a simulation examines which effects a fall of the dollar has on the structure and the level of production and employment in the Federal Republic of Germany.     

Die Liberalisierung des Wohlfahrtsstaates und ihre Herausforderungen für das Pflegemanagement der Zukunft

Heilberufe - Die Liberalisierung des Wohlfahrtsstaates, ausgelöst durch den zunehmend globali sierten Wettbewerb, wird in der Zukunft auch wesentliche Auswirkungen auf die Anforderungen an die...     

Environmental (De-) Regulation, Competition, and Policy Rules

This article analyzes some problems regarding our knowledge of environmental policy. Sustainable development as the prospective enlargement of the political agenda has been identified as a long-term challenge for economic policy which could get trapped in a new form of interventionism. The evolutionary market approach that is presented here focuses on development risks of environmental policy that are mostly neglected in standard theory. A transfer of the Hayekian concept of negative rules to the realm of environmental policy is critically discussed. A straight-forward transfer of Hayek's theory stressing the importance of negative rules cannot be recommended, since even the negative rules carry some development risks in the realm of environmental policy. Some preliminary political consequences are drawn which are appropriate to limit the extension of environmental targets in the future.