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This volume documents the speeches given at the academic commemoration ceremony for Peter Herrmann at the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg on May 15, 2003.

Volume 22 of Research in Economic History contains six papers. Three are on agriculture and two on macro issues related to the Great Depression. A concluding paper examines trends in interstate migration in the United States.Fred Pryor begins the volume with a provocative exploration of the degree to which the Neolithic revolution was in fact revolutionary. Pryor argues for a considerably lesser break with the past than has been commonly asserted. He maintains, in particular, that hunter-gatherer methods of procuring subsistence persisted alongside a continuum of agricultural practices. His ev

Introduction / Alexander J. Field -- From foraging to farming : the so-called "neolithic revolution" / Frederic L. Pryor -- The growth of world agricultural production, 1800-1938 / Giovanni Federico -- The Great Depression as a credit boom gone wrong / Barry Eichengreen, Kris J. Mitchener -- The length and the depth of the Great Depression : an international comparison / Jakob B. Madsen -- The decline and rise of interstate migration in the United States : evidence from the IPUMS, 1850-1990 / Joshua L Rosenbloom, William A Sundstrom -- The price history of English agriculture, 1209-1914 / Gregory Clark

Dieser Band führt in die wichtigsten Diskussionen der politischen Theorie und Philosophie ein und zwar anhand von Aufsätzen zu einzelnen Begriffen, deren Gehalt in den letzten 10 bis 20 Jahren besonders umkämpft war, z.B. Demokratie, Gerechtigkeit, Globalisierung, Multikulturalismus, Krieg. Die Beiträge gliedern sich jeweils in drei Abschnitte: Erst verdeutlichen sie die Relevanz des verhandelten Begriffs für die politische Theorie/Philosophie sowie für die politische Praxis. In einem zweiten, besonders ausführlichen Schritt werden dann die zentralen Linien der Auseinandersetzung nachgezeichnet. Drittens stellen die Autorinnen bzw. Autoren eine eigene Position dar

The word govern comes from a Greek root "kybern", which means to "steer" (The same root appears incybernetics, the science of control.) The job of government is to steer, not to row. Delivering services - whetherrepairing streets or operating an airline - is rowing, and government is nor very good at this task. Privatization is apragmatic policy for restoring government to its fundamental role, steering, while relying on the private sector todo the rowing.Privatization can be defined broadly as relying more on the private institutions of society and less on governmentto satisfy people's needs. It is the act of reducing the role of government or increasing the role of the otherinstitutions of society in producing goods and services and in owning property. In general, both the public andprivate sectors play important roles, and it is increasingly common to refer to "public-private partnerships", a lesscontentious term than "privatization". A public-private partnership is defined as any arrangement between agovernment and the private sector in which partially or traditionally public activities are performed by the privatesector.The distinction between public and private is elusive. We speak of a park or government office building asbeing publicly owned, but we use the same term to describe Microsoft because it has many stockholders and anymember of the public may buy part of the company; it is a private firm that is publicly owned. In the same way, apublic restaurant is one that caters to the public at large, although it may be owned by a sole proprietor. Confusingly,we use the same word, public, to describe three very different conditions: government ownership, widespreadownership, and open access. Their semantic confusion is nevertheless instructive, for it implies that governmentownership - and by extension, government action - is not necessary to achieve widespread (i.e., "public") benefits.Privatization capitalises on this underappreciated truism and takes advantage of the full array of ownership andoperating ...

The paper deals with the role of economic policy and the role of the state in economy on the backgroundof historic experience. It is particularly focused on the changing role of the state in the globalization processand the impact of recent globalization trends on economic and political decision-making.