ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR DIE GESAMTE STAATSWISSENSCHAFT October 1965.

The article presents the abstracts of several papers on economics published in the October 1965 issue of the journal "Zeitschrift Für Die Gesamte Staatswissenschaft." The first paper of the journal "The Problem of Middle Europe, 1840-1940," by W.O. Henderson, discusses the possibility of extending German economic and political influence in central Europe. The second paper of the journal is "General Economic Theory and Spatial Economic Relations," by E.V. Böventer. Confronting the terms general economic theory and spatial economic relations the author examines the tools that have been developed for the analysis of a spaceless economy in the light of their capability to analyze problems of a space-economy. The third paper "Optimum Economic Policy for Stabilization With a Quadratic Criterion Function," by J.K. Sengupta, analyzes the nature and implications of instability generated by the so-called shock variables. The question of an appropriate stabilization policy emphasizing the two-fold objectives of stability and optimality is also discussed in relation to the Hicksian non-linear trade cycle model extended to include government expenditure as an additional variable.