The German high-skills/high value-added economy has long been the Mecca for supporters of the European social model. So long as Model Deutschland was thriving the notion of Social Europe was a plausible political project. But Germany is facing a range of economic problems - the aftershock of...

This paper sets out to explain the factors behind Ireland's exceptional period of economic growth from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s. It suggests that an unbending commitment to economic openness and an on-going effort to establish quality domestic institutions were the main drivers of the...

First paragraph: The death of Jörg Huffschmid in December 2009, at the age of 69, is a loss to critical economics and to the movement for a more just and rational economic system. Jörg worked, in Germany and in Europe as a whole, both to develop a powerful critique of orthodox economic...

In February 2015, the European Commission published a Green Paper in which it put forward the goal to 'build a true single market for capital' for all European Union member states by 2019. The present paper argues that there is no realistic prospect of achieving this goal given that the Green...

Eurozone leaderships do not yet seem ready deal decisively with the sovereign debt crisis. In some respects, however, the cure may turn out to be worse than the disease - imposing a virtually colonial regime on the weaker economies. Germany, in particular, has failed in the past to respond...

Although reckless economic policies in Greece itself were a sufficient condition for the deep economic crisis recently experienced in Greece, policy errors at European Union (EU) level were a necessary condition in that, firstly, only design flaws in the monetary union permitted the huge...

This paper sets out to explain the factors behind Ireland's exceptional period of economic growth from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s. It suggests that an unbending commitment to economic openness and an on-going effort to establish quality domestic institutions were the main drivers of the...