Croatia is very close to meeting the requirements necessary for becoming a member of the European Union (EU). On February 6, 2008, the European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said that accession negotiations with Croatia are moving ahead well. As in all new member states (NMS), the...

In der derzeitigen Diskussion um die Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) spielt das Argument der positiven Beschäftigungswirkungen eine zentrale Rolle. Wir untersuchen seine Stichhaltigkeit mithilfe einer Ex-Post-Evaluierung der Zahlungen in 69 Landkreisen Brandenburgs, Sachsens und...

In the present dissertation, an ex-post impact assessment of the CAP is conducted in the three East German Federal States of Brandenburg, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt. The analysis is based on regional data for 69 counties observed between 1997 and 2007. The main objective of the study is twofold:...

This unique Handbook contains substantial and invaluable summary discussions of work on economic processes and issues, and on the relationship between economic and non-economic areas of life. Furthermore it describes conceptual orientations that are important among economic anthropologists, and...

This unique Handbook contains substantial and invaluable summary discussions of work on economic processes and issues, and on the relationship between economic and non-economic areas of life. Furthermore it describes conceptual orientations that are important among economic anthropologists, and...

The work of Elinor Ostrom is important for those who deplore the fact that the rise of ethnographic methods has led mainstream socio-cultural anthropologists to lose interest in evolution. This trend in anthropology is illustrated with reference to research on property, where Ostrom herself made...

Economic anthropology is a contested area of interdisciplinary research. Although some practitioners define the task as the application of mainstream economic theorizing to the full range of human groups in time and space, many others argue in the light of the ethnographic evidence that it is...

Croatia is very close to meeting the requirements necessary for becoming a member of the European Union (EU). On February 6, 2008, the European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said that accession negotiations with Croatia are moving ahead well. As in all new member states (NMS), the...