Our purpose here is to challenge the big-bang approach to economic history in which some alleged institutional imposition - a deus machine - is claimed to launch a series of new economic behaviors. This so-called prime mover is then carried forward by the inexorable forces of path dependency to...

The food industry is one of the most important sectors in the Latvian economy. However, due to its close links to agriculture, the structural crisis in the processing sector is the main obstacle to increasing output, productivity and profitability in the entire agricultural sector. Based on the...

Der ökonomische und politische Desintegrationsprozeß innerhalb der Russischen Föderation führte zwischen 1990 und 1994 zu einer Halbierung des überregionalen innerrussischen Getreidehandels und deutlichen Rückgängen in der Erzeugung. Aus der europäischen Wirtschaftsgeschichte und den...

From 1990 to 1994 the economic and political process of disintegration within the Russian Federation halved the domestic trade of grain between the various regions and caused significant reductions in the production. From European economic history and the experience of several developing...