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1- What is codetermination? Describe both the theoretical concept and its implications and compare theory to practice in Germany. Why does Germany rely on codetermination? Does codetermination have any role in the success of the German Mittelstand? Senator Elizabeth Warren suggested that the institution of codetermination should be brought to US corporations. How would that impact US corporations?

2- According to Hayek’s article “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” what is the fundamental role of prices in the economy? Why does Hayek use the word marvel when he describes the price mechanism? What happens when prices are determined by the state rather than by the interaction of many buyers and many sellers in the marketplace? Discuss the differences in allocative efficiency between a capitalist and a socialist economic system as they relate to the price mechanism in each system.

3- Lewis's two-sector model is said to be a good description of industrialization in East Asia. What is the essence of this model? Use the graphs to represent the two sectors and explain in detail the dynamics of the labor movement between the two sectors. What is the model’s relevance to understanding economic growth in Asia? Discuss the long-term implications of economic growth in East Asian economics systems.

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• Codetermination is profoundly established in the convention of German corporate administration and has existed in its present structure since the Codetermination Act of 1976. It has an unequivocal social measurement: as the German Constitutional Court governed, codetermination on the organization level is intended to present equivalent cooperation of investors and representatives in a company's dynamic and will supplement the monetary authenticity of a company's administration with a social one. Codetermination could be seen as a foundation improving laborers' portrayal and cooperation rights in an association's corporate administration. There are two levels through which representatives are given codetermination rights to take an interest in a company's dynamic: the work chamber.

Germany was one of the primary nations to present a two-level framework, implying that the law expects firms to have a leader board, created by chiefs and led by the CEO, and an administrative board, made by non-heads, which are investor and worker delegates (counting association agents). Note that laborers are hence spoken to on the administrative board – not the (chief) board. The quantity of worker delegates relies upon the size and lawful sort of the firm: one-portion of the individuals from the administrative board are worker agents for firms with staff of more than 500 for restricted obligation enterprises ("GmbH") and more than 2000 for stock organizations ("AG"), and 33% for stock companies with somewhere in the range of 500 and 2000 staff. The administrator of the administrative board, who is chosen by investors, has an additional vote if there should arise an occurrence of a tie.

• There might be no authoritative answer in any case, over the past 50 years, Germany has come nearest to discovering it. Its after war financial wonder was great, yet its later capacity to brave downturns and assimilate the expenses of reunification is, maybe, much more striking. Germany was not insusceptible to the monetary emergency of 2008-9, however the jobless rate increased more gradually than somewhere else in Europe. Despite the fact that lately it has edged up towards 6.9%, it stays well beneath the euro zone's 11.7% normal. Germany's flexibility springs from the quality of its medium-sized, regularly family-claimed fabricating organizations, all things considered known as the Mittelstand, which represent 60% of the labor force and 52% of Germany's GDP.

The suffering achievement of the Mittelstand has been all around archived however infrequently imitated. The standard reason is that it is established in German history and culture and in this way unexportable. When so much business is led on a worldwide scale, by means of internationally open media, this reason is wearing ragged.

Let me feature a portion of the highlights extraordinary to the Mittelstand model that I accept everybody ought to gain from – and copy on the off chance that they can. The first is the thing that we may call the Mittelstand ethos – that business is a productive venture that plans to be socially helpful. Making a benefit isn't an end in itself: work creation, customer fulfillment and item greatness are similarly as key. Assuming obligation is treated with doubt. The goal of each business chief is to acquire trust – from workers, clients, providers and society in general. This ethos tolls with the estimations of judiciousness and obligation with which each teacher wants to pervade their students. Subsequently, about portion of all German secondary school understudies proceed onward to prepare in an exchange. Business and training are common partners.

Congressperson Elizabeth Warren's proposition to remember specialist agents for corporate administration brings into U.S. public talk an idea that has reliably been supported by Catholic social educating.

• Congressperson Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts presented the Accountable Capitalism Act, a bill that would, in addition to other things, require all organizations with over $1 billion in yearly incomes to remember delegates of the business' representatives for the company's top managerial staff. In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, Warren contends that the bill is expected as a reaction to the undeniably selective spotlight on the benefits of investors over other corporate partners, for example, laborers and shoppers, and to the developing disparity in salary between corporate heads and representatives. The bill has produced a lot of intrigue, both positive and negative, however in this post I need to inspect the connection between Senator Warren's bill and Catholic social educating.

Despite the fact that Warren herself doesn't utilize the word, she is proposing co-assurance, a type of corporate association where the laborers share in the administration of the business. Congressperson Warren's bill recommends that specialist delegates should hold 40% of the seats on the directorate. Numerous European countries, for example, Germany, Sweden, France, and the Netherlands, have received a co-assurance arrangement of corporate administration, taking various structures in every nation. Catholics assumed a significant function in actualizing these co-assurance frameworks in those nations with huge Catholic populaces since co-assurance has been a significant feature of Catholic social instructing for a very long while.