文档介绍：The Invisible Hand
Ulrich van Suntum
THE
INVISIBLE
HAND
Economic Thought
Yesterday
and Today
Translated by
Caroline Hemingway
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Professor Dr. Ulrich van Suntum
University of Muenster
Am Stadtgraben 9
48143 Muenster, Germany
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We kindly thank “Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft”, Köln,
for subsidizing this book.
We kindly thank Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung .,Bonn,
for subsidizing this book.
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Foreword
The economies of the European Union are today highly integrated. Constitutive
part of this high degree of integration is the euro which unites most of the Member
Stateswithintheeuro-
Union in the spirit of the European Stabi