Die thermodynamische Wahrscheinlichkeit W beschreibt die Zahl von Realisierungsmöglichlichkeiten von Elementen in einem System und kann als Grad der Unordnung aufgefasst werden. Über die Boltzmann-Gleichung S = k ln W ist die thermodynamische Wahrscheinlichkeit mit der Entropie verbunden. Übertragen auf die Verteilung von Werten oder Ressourcen auf ein Wirtschaftsystem korreliert die Entropie mit dem Grad der Unordnung. Absolute Ordnung (S=0) bring das Wirtschaftsystem ebenso zum Erliegen wie die maximale Gleichverteilung, d.h. hohe Entropie, durch fehlende Anreize. Für ein Wirtschaftsystem wird eine optimale Entropie postuliert, die Voraussetzung für Erfolg und Nachhaltigkeit ist. / The thermodynamic probability W characterizes the number of possible realizations of elements in system. This probability can be interpreted as a degree of disorder in this system. Using the Boltzmann equation thermodynamic probability and entropy S are related: S = k ln W (k = Boltzmann´s constant). We can use entropy to characterize values and resources of economic systems. A maximum of entropy will correlate with a maximum degree of economic disorder. Absolute order in the system (S=0) will impair economic development on the one side and maximum entropy will erase any persuit of success on the other side. An optimum of entropy for economic systems is postulated which the principle of economic success and sustainability.

Traça um panorama teórico e histórico do contexto do pós-guerra, da crise da ordem internacional estabelecida em Bretton Woods, e da perspectiva de uma Nova Ordem Econômica Internacional (NOEI). Estuda o subsistema regional latino-americano, com os seus diversos esquemas de integração existentes (ALALC/ALADI, MCCA, GRAN, CARICOM, MERCOSUL). Descreve a criação do SELA, as expectativas que gerou e a natureza, propósitos, objetivos e estrutura da organização, como definidas no Convênio do Panamá (1975). Comenta e avalia alguns aspectos da atuação desta organização intergovernamental de integração regional frente aos problemas da dívida externa e crise das Malvinas, bem como perante aos novos processos de industrialização e tecnologia, com a intenção de definir melhor a utilização dos conceitos de desenvolvimento econômico e de seguridade econômica coletiva e integral. Por último, a dissertação analisa o papel do SELA na relação da América Latina com os EUA, União Européia, Japão, GATT e UNCTAD, esclarecendo a posição da organização nos marcos do diálogo Norte-Sul. Conclui com uma avaliação da história, importância e perspectivas futuras desta organização internacional. / Outlines a theoretical and historic post-war context, the crisis of the international order established at Bretton Woods, and the perspective for a New International Economic Order (NIEO). The research studies the latin american regional subsystem and its several integration arrangements (ALALC/ALADI, MCCA, GRAN, CARICOM, MERCOSUL). It focus on the foundation of the SELA, its mandate, objectives, organization and expectations generated at the time of the Panama Convention (1975). It reviews and evaluates the performance of this intergovernamental organization for the regional integration at the time of the Latin America debt crisis, and Malvinas war, as well as its stances on new industrialization and technological developments, to better define the concepts of economic development and collective and integral economic security. The research also analyses the role played by the SELA in the latin american relations with the USA, European Union, Japan, GATT and UNCTAD, under the North-South dialogue context. It concludes with an evaluation of the history, importance and futures perspectives of this international organization.

Traça um panorama teórico e histórico do contexto do pós-guerra, da crise da ordem internacional estabelecida em Bretton Woods, e da perspectiva de uma Nova Ordem Econômica Internacional (NOEI). Estuda o subsistema regional latino-americano, com os seus diversos esquemas de integração existentes (ALALC/ALADI, MCCA, GRAN, CARICOM, MERCOSUL). Descreve a criação do SELA, as expectativas que gerou e a natureza, propósitos, objetivos e estrutura da organização, como definidas no Convênio do Panamá (1975). Comenta e avalia alguns aspectos da atuação desta organização intergovernamental de integração regional frente aos problemas da dívida externa e crise das Malvinas, bem como perante aos novos processos de industrialização e tecnologia, com a intenção de definir melhor a utilização dos conceitos de desenvolvimento econômico e de seguridade econômica coletiva e integral. Por último, a dissertação analisa o papel do SELA na relação da América Latina com os EUA, União Européia, Japão, GATT e UNCTAD, esclarecendo a posição da organização nos marcos do diálogo Norte-Sul. Conclui com uma avaliação da história, importância e perspectivas futuras desta organização internacional. / Outlines a theoretical and historic post-war context, the crisis of the international order established at Bretton Woods, and the perspective for a New International Economic Order (NIEO). The research studies the latin american regional subsystem and its several integration arrangements (ALALC/ALADI, MCCA, GRAN, CARICOM, MERCOSUL). It focus on the foundation of the SELA, its mandate, objectives, organization and expectations generated at the time of the Panama Convention (1975). It reviews and evaluates the performance of this intergovernamental organization for the regional integration at the time of the Latin America debt crisis, and Malvinas war, as well as its stances on new industrialization and technological developments, to better define the concepts of economic development and collective and integral economic security. The research also analyses the role played by the SELA in the latin american relations with the USA, European Union, Japan, GATT and UNCTAD, under the North-South dialogue context. It concludes with an evaluation of the history, importance and futures perspectives of this international organization.

The patent system has developed over a period of over 500 years. The initial motivation was a desire to import privately held technology to advance economic development, offering excluding and transferrable rights through licensing to “inventors” for the disclosure and perfection of their “contrivance” (invention). These rights have gradually developed to internationally accepted private property rights on technology and are today in many wayssimilar to physical assets, establishing, since 1883, the basis for an international system for trade in technology in its own rights. The thesis is a dual study of contract and mechanism design for experimental trading with patents. Experimental economics is used as a method to gather data on behavior, varying environmental and institutional parameters. An informal price theory is developed and tested. The experimental research adds to the static analysis literature by using a dynamic analysis in a behaviorally rich experimental system of specialized agents and competitive demand-side bidding on a linear contract, the “patent product.” The microeconomic system has primary and secondary markets, traders, and a linear contract on patents with limitedvalidity and uncertain values. The main results show that risks are shifted away from invention to innovation through demand-side bidding, including traders, creating incentives for increased technologycompetition and economic growth. When a linear contract – fixed fee plus royalty – is used totrade the patents, the fixed fee approaches the blocking value of the patent, in support of theproposed price theory (blocking formally similar to insurance). Such shift in risk bearing maybe beneficial for developing nations in leveraging their human capital through education andincreasing global market access through the patent system. The competitive bidding increasesthe dynamic market efficiency considerably, clearly indicating the dynamic value of the patentsystem. Market efficiency is however still low compared to other typical auction markets,suggesting further experiments to increase efficiency before it will be possible to provide helpful advice about what to do in the field. Dynamic gains increase with increased demandsidebidding and high patent validity. Tentative policy proposals are made for patent,development and innovation policy. The experiments have been carried out at the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, George Mason University, USA. / QC 20100813

Am Ende des zweiten Weltkrieges war im zerstörten Europa die Notwendigkeit einer neuen Wirtschaftsordnung gegeben. Insbesondere in Deutschland war es wichtig, dass durch diese ein erneuter Krieg verhindert würde. Das 1918 nach dem ersten Weltkrieg entstandene wirtschaftliche System wurde damals als eine der Hauptursachen für den Aufstieg des nationalsozialistischen Regimes gesehen. Die Sieger des ersten Weltkrieges hatten sich gegen einen direkten Eingriff in die Wirtschaftspolitik Deutschlands entschieden und damit die Entwicklung der marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnung der Weimarer Republik ermöglicht. Dieses Vorgehen erschien den Siegermächten nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg fehlerhaft und veranlasste sie zur Besetzung Deutschlands und zur Restriktion der Wirtschaft...

China’s rise and Russia’s fall shape today’s global political economy. This new great divergence originates from the different policies pursued in the transition from a command economy. Russia applied a ‘big-bang’ doctrine with rapid price liberalisation at its core. In contrast, a policy of experimentalist gradualism manifested in the dual track price system (DTPS) laid the foundations for China’s economic success. But the Chinese reform approach was highly contested in the 1980s and China came close to implementing a big bang. My dissertation sheds light on this critical crossroads by asking on what intellectual grounds China escaped a big bang in price reform; or to turn the question positively, on what intellectual grounds the DTPS was defended against the plans to implement a big bang. To derive an answer, the first part presents the broad historical and theoretical context of the 1980s Chinese price reform debate. In particular, I analyse the ancient Chinese tradition of price regulation, the US price control experience and controversies during and after the Second World War, and the Chinese Communists’ price policies in the Maoist period. Against this background, the second part conducts an in-depth study of the 1980s price reform debate drawing on more than 50 interviews with Chinese and foreign economists, previously unexplored archival evidence and a wealth of Chinese sources. I show that the DTPS emerged from bureaucratic practices and was justified by large-scale empirical research efforts conducted by young intellectuals, who had gained influence through their contribution to rural reform. In contrast, I find that the big bang reform approach was introduced to China by Eastern European émigré scholars and Western economists, and was promoted by a group of Chinese academic economists. I demonstrate how the DTPS was grounded in a pragmatic philosophy of economic policy-making deeply rooted in China’s bureaucratic tradition, which prevailed over the idealist stance underlying the panacea of a big bang.

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This dissertation deals with the nature of the Chinese economic system. The first chapter focuses on the global economy and seeks to define the main economic systems prevailing in it, ie. Anglo-Saxon, Continental and Asian-developmental. Compared to these systems defined as market economies, the dissertation consequently analyses and defines a system of state capitalism and the main elements of it. The following part of the dissertation is focused on the historical Chinese approaches to economic governance of the country and attempts to identify those historical approaches that are still relevant and influential in modern Chinese economy. The third chapter analyses the Chinese economic system and the role of the state in it; it also examines the government's approach to the ownership of state enterprises and the overall extent of state ownership in the Chinese economy. The final chapter examines the different types of state subsidies to domestic, often state, enterprises in China. As an example of the various subsidies a case study on the automotive industry is used.

Depuis environ un demi-siècle nous assistons à une intégration du concept du territoire dans l’étude de la problématique du développement économique dans les pays du Sud comme dans les pays du Nord. La nouvelle approche considère le territoire comme un acteur du développement et non uniquement un support de l’activité économique. Elle se base sur le constat que le développement ne peut pas se réaliser qu’au plus près des acteurs territoriaux qui valorisent les ressources (génériques et spécifiques) disponibles sur le territoire par une dynamique technico-économique de production assurant sa compétitivité et une dynamique socio-institutionnelle de régulation garantissant son maintien et sa durabilité. Cette thèse se veut une contribution à la compréhension et à l’enrichissement de cette nouvelle approche du développement.A partir d’une réflexion approfondie sur le cas de la Bekaa (un territoire périphérique – dans le sens géographique et économique – du Liban), nous tentons de démontrer, que dans le contexte d’une structure économique génératrice de déséquilibres sectoriels et spatiaux et de disparités sociales, la notion de développement territorial et les concepts qui lui sont associés (système économique territorial, organisation territoriale, régulation locale, rendement collectif…) constituent un cadre d’analyse approprié et peuvent être un outil efficace d’une politique de développement au niveau régional ou local. Notre analyse s’efforce à montrer qu’au sein d’un cluster agricole à la Bekaa se développe un système économique territorial structuré autour de la filière vitivinicole engendrant une dynamique socioéconomique territoriale susceptible d’améliorer les conditions de vie de la communauté locale. Bien qu’elle soit ancrée dans le territoire de la Bekaa, l’activité vitivinicole est loin de se développer en autarcie. Elle cherche en permanence à s’inscrire dans une économie mondialisée grâce à l’ouverture internationale des acteurs locaux. Dans le contexte actuel de la globalisation, cette ouverture sur l’extérieur, tout en offrant d’importantes opportunités, est simultanément source de défis sur le plan concurrentiel. Le SET vitivinicole de la Bekaa fait face également à d’autres défis relevant de facteurs endogènes tels que les interactions entre les acteurs. C’est pourquoi il est incontournable de mettre en place une gouvernance territoriale susceptible de réguler les rapports inter-acteurs et d’élaborer des stratégies collectives de promotion territoriale. / For about half a century we have witnessed an integration of the concept of territory in the analysis of economic development in less developed countries as well as in developed ones. The new approach considers the territory as an actor of development and not merely as a spatial frame for the economic activity. It is based on the observation that development must be carried out as close as possible to the local actors who value the resources (generic and specific) available on the territory by a technical-economic dynamic of production ensuring its competitiveness and a socio-institutional dynamic of regulation guaranteeing its sustainability. This thesis aims to contribute to the understanding and improvement of this new approach of development.With a deep consideration of the Bekaa (a peripheral territory - in the geographical and economic sense - of Lebanon), we try to demonstrate that in the context of an economic structure generating sectoral and spatial imbalances and social disparities, the notion of territorial development and the concepts associated with it (territorial economic system, territorial organization, local regulation, collective efficiency ...) constitute an appropriate framework of analysis and can be an effective tool for a development policy on the local level. Our analysis attempts to show that within the Bekaa agricultural cluster develops a territorial economic system structured around the wine industry, generating a territorial socio-economic dynamic capable of improving the living conditions of the local community. Although it is anchored in the territory of the Bekaa, wine activity is far from developing in autarchy. It constantly seeks to be part of a globalized economy thanks to the international openness of local players. In the current context of globalization, this openness to the outside world, while offering important opportunities, simultaneously presents challenges on a competitive level. The Bekaa territorial economic system also faces other challenges arising from endogenous factors such as interactions between actors. Therefore, it is essential to set up territorial governance that can regulate inter-actors’ relations and develop collective strategies for territorial promotion.

In this master thesis I want to focus on high rank executives in the National Bank of Czechoslovakia. between years 1938- 1953. These employers are important to me, because they were educated during the time of Austro-Hungarian empire or during the time of The First Czechoslovak Republic. They also had to work under nazist economic system and under communist economic system as well. These interactions between employers and both regimes are the ones that I would like to study in my master thesis. I would also like to study their social background. Their place of birth was also important. It is important to know their skills in foreign languages. Foreign languages were necessary for communication between the bank and other financial institutions. Key words: The National Bank of Czechoslovakia, banking, nazism, communism, social history, bureaucracy, economic system