Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, 2017 (vol. 25), issue 3

Strategic Forces in the Czech Brewing Industry from 1990-2015

Stanislav Tripes, Jiří Dvořák

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2017, 25(3):3-38 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.580  

The need for this research stems from the dynamic development that the brewing industry has undergone since the Velvet Revolution when the market was split between seventy-one regional breweries. In the 1990s, customers began to prefer the larger nationwide breweries, a trend that led to the bankruptcy of some regional breweries thereby creating a market niche that was quickly filled by microbreweries. By 2015, there were 44 industrial breweries and around 300 microbreweries. By then, the beer market had diversified, and since the brewing industry had been highly dynamic, managers had to change strategy regarding customer requirements. Strategic change...

National Economic Analysis of Agricultural and Church Restitutions in the Czech Republic

Karel Zeman

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2017, 25(3):39-56 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.581  

Democratically set ownership rights are the basic premise for a fully functioning liberal market economy. The restitution processes in the Czech Republic should have played an important role in rectifying the abuse of ownership rights during the period of the centrally-planned economy. Unfortunately, the asymmetries of the church restitutions, as the last process which should have been part of the rectification, i.e. the restoration of democratic ownership rights in the Czech Republic, became the catalyst for new injustices and grievances in relation to ordinary entitled persons to whom other restitution laws also applied.In light of the above,...

Tax Enforcement of Execution and Insolvency Proceedings

Tomáš Kouba

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2017, 25(3):57-67 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.582  

Taxes and other charges that are paid secure the economic existence of national and public budgets and funds. If a tax debtor refuses to consent to or pay their state tax, the state will not let this act go unpunished. While the issue of tax enforcement through taxation or the execution of insolvency proceedings is a highly interesting topic, it is also a huge and extremely sensitive and topical issue. Tax arrears have emerged within our economy and will continue to increase. Likewise, it is also known that the number of insolvency executions ordered for these non-payers is on the rise. This review focuses on the field of tax enforcement and defines...

Global Public Goods: The Case for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems

Miloslav Machoň

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2017, 25(3):68-83 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.583  

The debate surrounding the provision of welfare by state institutions has been widely discussed in the field of political economics since the 1930s. Related research also focuses on welfare supply at an international system level. This article assesses whether international cooperation in the area of sharing remote sensing data leads to the supply of global public goods, which to date has not yet been discussed in related scholarly literature. The supply of global public goods is assessed within the GEO international regime and leads to the use of the non-rivalrous GEOSS, which can be accessed by every socio-economic group in every UN member country...

Half-Forgotten Personalities of Economic Thought - J. K. Galbraith

Pavel Sirůček

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2017, 25(3):84-92 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.584  

J. K. Galbraith was a Canadian-American journalist, diplomat, activist, and economist who popularised economics and classified the institutional tradition of economic thought known as neo-institutionalism. Galbraith was famous for his critiques of standard economic schemes and was also a bestselling author. In his time, he was regarded as one of the most famous American public intellectuals.

Book Review

Ondřej Šíma

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2017, 25(3):93-97 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.585