Politická ekonomie, 2015 (vol. 63), issue 2

O firemních strategiích odborně, věcně a čtivě

On Corporate Strategies in a Skilled

Milan Žák

Politická ekonomie 2015, 63(2):275-276 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.1002  

Inovační paradox v Česku: ekonomická teorie a politická realita

Innovation Paradox in the Czech Republic: Economic Theory and Political Reality

Viktorie Klímová, Vladimír Žítek

Politická ekonomie 2015, 63(2):147-166 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.994  

This paper deals with allocation of financial resources from selected operational programmes among Czech regions and assess whether a regional innovation paradox occurs in the Czech Republic. Regional innovation paradox expresses a state when some regions with lower innovation performance and higher investment needs exist but at the same time these regions are not able to gain the offered resources. The article examines the relationship between amount of obtained resources and selected characteristics of regions through correlation analysis. The attention is focused on Operational programme Enterprise and Innovations and Operational programme Research...

Měření výstupu vzdělávacích služeb

Measurement of Output of Education Services

Petr Musil, Jakub Fischer

Politická ekonomie 2015, 63(2):167-184 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.995  

This paper deals with the topic of measurement of education services. The main part of output of education services is considered to be non-market in the Czech Republic and it is estimated a sum of related costs. Deflation has been traditionally done using input method i.e. recalculation of each component separately. The main drawback of this method is an assumption of direct correlation between changes in inputs and changes in output. Productivity can not be estimated therefore output methods based on direct volume measurement are now preferred for individual services. Methodology of direct volume measurement of education services has been developed...

Kompetence, vzdělání a lidský kapitál v České reublice ve světle dat OECD-PIAAC

Skills, Education and Human Capital in the Czech Republic in tThe View of OECD-PIAAC Survey

Petr Matějů, Jiří Večerník

Politická ekonomie 2015, 63(2):185-203 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.996  

The 2011/12 survey PIAAC is analyzed regarding the formation of skills (literacy, numeracy and information technologies) by family background, gender and age, and regarding the relationships between skill levels and education of adult population in the Czech Republic. The impact of the family background was increasing and the chances of men and women to attain higher education have been reversed in the past: currently, women have twice as high a chance to attain secondary education than men and three times higher chance to pass to tertiary education. Skills are formed both by education and social origin which affects them rather indirectly. In the...

Nekonzistentnosť časových preferencií ľudí z arginalizovaných rómskych komunít

On inconsistency of time preferences of people from the marginalised roma communities

Tomáš Želinský

Politická ekonomie 2015, 63(2):204-222 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.997  

Vztah etického a ekonomického chování

The relationship of ethical and economic behaviour

Tomáš Sigmund

Politická ekonomie 2015, 63(2):223-243 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.998  

Altruism and the ethical relationship to other people affect behaviour of subjects in economic environment. Economy tries to capture this behaviour, there are various models, but it hasn't been successful in fi nding one model describing various types and cases of altruistic behaviour. Business ethics faces a similar problem as it lacks a defi nition of what exactly ethical behaviour means. This paper claims impossibility of fi nding a unanimous defi nition belongs to ethics and is its characteristic feature. In the area of economic behaviour that is not a problem, but a chance for innovative behaviour.

Transakčné náklady, vlastnícke práva a externality - k vedeckému odkazu R. H. Coasea

Transaction Costs, Property Rights and Externalities - on the Contribution of R. H. Coase to Economic

Anetta Čaplánová, Marcel Novák

Politická ekonomie 2015, 63(2):244-257 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.999  

The paper discusses the contribution of R. H. Coase to economics and his role as a founder of the new institutional economics. Coase also contributed to the establishment of Law and Economics as a discipline, he is the author of the transaction cost theory and of the Coase Theorem. The paper discusses main aspects of his theory and his core theoretical contributions including more recent ones as well as their impact on the development of the economic theory and economic policy. The role of transaction costs, well established property rights, the institutional framework and the need to relate economic analysis to the real economic development and to...

150 let od narození Maxe Webera

150 years since the birth of Max Weber

Marek Loužek

Politická ekonomie 2015, 63(2):258-274 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.1000  

The purpose of the paper is to examine the methodology of Max Weber and outline its relation to the economic science. The fi rst part analyses Weber's article "Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy" (1904). The second part examines the paper titled "Meaning of Ethical Neutrality in Sociology and Economics" (1917). The third part discusses the Weber's lecture "Science as a Vocation" (1918/19). The fourth part deals with the question in what respects Max Weber can be close to modern economists.