This book traces the stirring history of MCI, from its meager beginnngs to its present success. Experience MCI’s fight for survival as it forever alters the American business landscape.

Die “Fallstudien zur VWL” stammen aus der jüngeren europäischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte und behandeln aktuelle wirtschaftspolitische Themen. Die “Fallstudien zur VWL” sollen das Erlernen von ökonomischen Theorien lebendiger gestalten, den Studierenden die Anwendbarkeit ökonomischer Theorien vor Augen führen, die empirische Ausbildung in der Volkswirtschaftslehre unterstützen. Die “Fallstudien zur VWL” decken die zentralen Bereiche der Mikro- und Makroökonomik …

The collapse of communism and the statist model of development planning has led to a revolution in development economics.

This book aims to clarify the relationship between politics and economic growth. A systematic evaluation of this relationship using a comprehensive survey of cross-country data demonstrates that measures of democracy are less successful as indices of economic growth than are measures of policy volatility. This finding is important. It tends to challenge the current concentration …

DATE OF PUBLICATION IS 1998, NOT 1898! This copy was printed in Germany in 2002. Text is in in English, French, Italian and German