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Current personnel practices are counterproductive insofar as they engender a fear of change and align the self interest of public employees with the status quo. In moving to remedy this problem, however, we must take care not to overcompensate by losing important merit concepts such as career security which may be essential ingredients for a positive, productivity oriented, system of personnel management. Such a system, derived from both American and Japanese theory and prac tice, could involve a new dichotomy of personnel management activities between political and career executives.

THERE HAS BEEN INCREASED INTEREST RECENTLY IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MACROECONOMIC POLICIES. IN CONTRAST TO THE TRADITIONAL VIEW OF GOVERNMENT POLICIES AS ATTEMPTS TO STABILIZE THE MACROECONOMY, THERE HAS BEEN CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION PAID TO THE POSSIBLE POLITICAL INCENTIVES FOR GOVERNMENTS TO INCREASE THEIR CHANCES FOR REELECTION BY EXPLOITING ELEMENTS OF MYOPIA IN THE GENERAL PUBLIC THROUGH THE GENERATION OF POLITICAL BUSINESS CYCLES.1

In einem kurzen Abriß vergleicht der Autor die drei konzertierten Aktionen zwischen Staat, Gewerkschaften und Unternehmern (1964, 1970, 1979). Diese hatten das Ziel, mit Lohn- und Preisbeschränkungen sowie dem Verzicht auf Aussperrungen und Streiks verbesserte Rahmenbedingungen für einen wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung zu gewährleisten. (DÜI-Spe)