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Table of contents (11 papers)
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Front Matter
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Individualism in a Social Context
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Front Matter
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The Frontiers of Markets
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Normative Issues of Global Trade
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Back Matter
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About this book
The 1997 Symposium of the Egon-Sohmen-Foundation, which gave rise to this book, took place in the United States, on the East Coast between New Y C)rk and New Haven, more precisely in Stamford (Conn.). The original choice had been a place close to Yale University, where Egon Sohmen taught economics from 1958 to 1960, subsequent to his period at MIT. But the hotel in New Haven was closed down by a new owner-to pass through a process of creative destruction. Change of ownership-on a large scale and as a transition from public to private hands-had been the topic of the preceding Egon Sohmen-Symposium (in Budapest in 1996) published under the head ing: Privatization at the End of the Century (Springer-Verlag, 1997). Yet mere change of ownership, some of us at the Foundation felt in subsequent months, was too narrow a focus to properly deal with the movement under consideration: a transition of ownership together with a general move towards a competitive market system charac terized by global openness, uncertainty, decentralized risk-bearing, and the increasing importance of information and innovation.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Merits and Limits of Markets
Editors: Herbert Giersch
Series Title: Publications of the Egon-Sohmen-Foundation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72210-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-72212-7Published: 28 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-72210-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 279