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After the end of the Cold War, the world has experienced a more mono-polar power structure. In contrast to promises of a peaceful 'one' world, this seems not to have provided more international justice and security, nor reduced international conflict. Defense-related issues, long given minor attention in economics, have surfaced rather as a central mechanism in the current stage of globalization. Increase in military expenditures, the multiplication of wars, new generations of sophisticated weapons, and increased interest for defense stocks at the financial markets, indicate that a new type of relation between defense and economy has set in. The papers presented here investigate on what economics has to say on conflict, war, and terrorism today, a selection of sophisticated economic analyses of the theoretical and applied industrial, macroeconomic, fiscal-policy, financial market, regional, and alternative policies dimensions. Here, modern economics has a considerable and critical contribution to make.

Die siebte Jahrestagung des Instituts für Institutionelle und Sozial-Ökonomie (iiso) der Universität Bremen im Februar 2000 beleuchtet zentrale Konzepte der modernen Sozial-Ökonomik, insbesondere „Markt“, „Macht“ und „Diskurs“ als Bewertungsmechanismen. Die Analyse erfolgt sowohl aus institutionen- als auch evolutionstheoretischen Perspektiven und im interdisziplinären sozialwissenschaftlichen Dialog. Die Tagung zeigt erneut, dass moderne Sozial-Ökonomik kommunikationsfähig ist und die zentralen Konzepte in den Bereichen „Arbeit/Beschäftigung“, „Region/regionale Gesellschaft“ und „Ökologie/Nachhaltigkeit“ anwendet. Die Diskussionen sind handlungsorientiert und wirtschaftspolitisch reflektiert. Die Herausgeber streben an, mit diesem Band neue Impulse für kritische sozial-ökonomische und interdisziplinäre Diskurse zu setzen, um erforderliche Neubewertungen in Ökonomik und Ökonomie anzuregen. Beiträge stammen von Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, Adelheid Biesecker, Wolfram Elsner, Klaus Grenzdörffer, Gerd Grözinger, Hans-Dietrich Haasis, Sabine Hofmeister, Thomas Knogge, Frank Messner, Christa Müller, Klaus Nielsen, Jens Rose, Kurt W. Rothschild und Ines Weller.

Industrial Policies after 2000 investigates industrial policy during a time of deregulation, privatization and a growing interest in small government. This book brings together scholarship from different countries, different institutional contexts, and different theoretical perspectives. That includes the neoclassical `market' approach, game theoretical models, and institutional economics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction: Industrial Policy; Issues, Theories and Instruments.- 2 The Theoretical Analysis of Industrial Policy.- 3 The Implications of Globalization for Industrial, Trade, and Innovation Policies.- 4 Comprehensive Industrial Policies and the Contemporary Coordination Nexus.- 5 A Simple Theory of Cooperative Industrial Policy. Model Building and Practical Experience.- 6 Industrial Policy, Industrial Change and Institutional Inertia.- 7 Strategic Trade and International Competition Policy175.- 8 Policy Implications of Purely Strategic Mergers.- 9 Contracts and Costs in a Corporate/Government System Dynamics Network: A United States Case.- 10 Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), Employment Creation, and Industrial Policy.- 11 Policies for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs).- 12 Regional Paths of Institutional Anchoring in the Global Economy. The Case of the North-East of England and Aragón.- 13 Anything New in Industrial Policy? Myths and Empirical Facts. The Case of some German Regions.- 14 An Industrial Policy Agenda 2000 and Beyond Experience, Theory and Policy.