Economic Freedom

In the turmoil of the financial market crisis goes on almost without saying that we are currently in Germany on a very different market from a position of fundamental points are: In the labor market. In the decision in parliament these days a new version of the Act relating to the fixing of minimum working conditions and the Workers Act. Readmore…

1 A verdict and his perceptionThe decision to smoking bans, the end of July 2008 precipitated the BVG moved, a Federal Republican uniform regulation for the time being in the distance. That was not well received in the media. They preferred the term “patchwork” approach to bring a rebuke to an incompetent politics. Readmore…

The “European social model” in the political rhetoric has a permanent place. In fact, however, be a model of the question. The countries in Europe have organized their economies differently. Four worlds dominate the scene: the Nordic, Anglo-Saxon, Continental and Mediterranean. The variants differ in many ways, even in the economic efficiency and social “justice. Readmore…

Financial market crisis intensified brake on growth in trade in servicesIs to be feared that the current financial crisis brings at least two things: First, a noticeable slowdown in the medium term growth potential in Europe and internationally, and secondly, new calls for capital controls. Readmore…

Were Since the fall of the Berlin Wall for the “socialists of all parties” probably no more opportune time than now to now and the end of the story of the “laissez-faire” or “turbo-capitalism” to announce solemnly. “Le laissez-faire, c 'est fini,” explained a few days ago, French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Readmore…

1 Of the U.S. real estate to the global financial crisisNow trigger the acute financial problems in many countries were in the summer of 2007, bad news about second-rate real estate loans in the U.S.. First emerged in the wake of the interbank market – at which banks provide each other with liquidity – large bottlenecks. Readmore…

The phenomenon Athletes using doping substances is not only recognized as a growing problem in cycling. From an economic perspective, the questions arise why athletes dope and – once we assume, we should prevent that -. What can you do in order to effectively prevent dopingLet us start from the premise, it could be distinguish exactly what is doping, namely the use of measures to improve the performance of an athlete, which sport are objectionable from an ethical point. Readmore…

China is currently developing a market-based model of society own type. The Chinese government says that it plans to use the mechanisms of capitalism to build socialism. The economic freedom is therefore attached no end in itself, but it is merely used as an instrument for achieving social and economic goals, after all the other instruments had failed until the end of the 1970s. Readmore…

Probably no institution sets the course of social development so much in the direction of an interventionist and dirigiste economic system as the state's paper money system. Due to the interference it causes in the economy, it provoked an economic and financial crisis after another. And not the free market system compromise much as say something like the series of business cycle upswings. Readmore…

First State and Welfare StateOn a fundamental level, one must note that each state also contains the minimal night-watchman state is already a welfare state elements. In particular, the rights of defense designed to protect the individual spheres over other individuals and against the state, are not enforced by the liberal constitutional state charges. Readmore…