Péter Ákos Bod

Institutions of Economic Policy

A Comparative Analysis

Information, data, statistics, and the modern state

Modern market economies are sensitive to the appropriate functioning of institutional and legal systems, particularly pertaining to regulations of ownership rights, contract enforcement, and upkeeping public order. The provision of these services needs a government, which itself requires resources to keep running, and needs to be able to provide the necessary services. Governments need data to collect taxes, administer expenditures, and to maintain public order. Below is the summary of a key institution, namely, public statistics.

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2020

ISBN: 978 963 059 970 2

Gazdaság

The reader is introduced to the purpose, structure, and organizational features of the most important institutions of market economy, such as the Treasury (Ministry of Finance), central (national) bank, bodies responsible for structural changes, supervision of competition, and regulators of strategic industries. The focus of the book is on open trade dependent states, with particular emphasis new member states of the European Union where the institutional order has been shaped by legacies of previous era as well as by policy transfer and policy advice through membership in EU, OECD, IMF and other international institutions. The bulk of the book deals with the comprehensive analysis of institutions of fiscal, monetary, competition, social, spatial policies, and with the emerging trends of new practices.

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