In der Septemberausgabe 2017 veröffentlichte der Wirtschaftsdienst einen Aufsatz von Georg Quaas zur aktuellen Kritik an der makroökonomischen Geldtheorie. Dirk Ehnts setzt sich mit diesem Aufsatz kritisch auseinander und vertritt die Auffassung, dass auch heute noch in weiten Teilen der Lehre...

The German debt brake forces the German government to target a very specific public deficit to GDP ratio. A ruling of the German constitutional court has drawn attention to the debt brake, as it is to be enforced more tightly than the federal German government previously thought. In this...

In this paper, the focus lies on the way the German government spends, how it spends and what the connection between finance ministry and central bank is. The institutions involved in the process are identified and discussed. As a member of the Eurozone, Germany's national central bank is not...

Standard presentations of stock-flow consistent modeling use specific Post Keynesian closures, even though a given stock-flow accounting structure supports various different economic dynamics. In this paper we separate the dynamic closure from the accounting constraints and cast the latter in...

Die andauernde Finanzkrise hat tief iegende Probleme des ökonomischen Mainstreams offengelegt und lässt Forderungen nach einer Erneuerung des ökonomischen Denkens lauter werden. Die Autoren beschreiben die Kritik am Status quo und gehen dabei auf die Vorwürfe von Einseitigkeit, blinden...

The importance of liquidity and insolvency for nation states and banks has been highlighted by current economic woes in the eurozone and elsewhere. The concepts are grounded in monetary theory, which determine the way they are interpreted. Connected to the discussion of autometallism and...

Die Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) ist eine empirische Geldtheorie und nutzt insbesondere Bilanzen und Buchungen als methodische Grundlage zur Erkenntnisgewinnung. Nach der funktionalen Ausgestaltung moderner Geldsysteme, in denen die Regierung keine Schulden in Auslandswährung hat oder einen...

In the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and within the context of significant macroeconomic imbalances in the world economy, economists have shown renewed interest in the way central banks and financial systems work. The rise of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has relied on the...

In his letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt Keynes (1933) wrote about "the technique of recovery itself". An increase in output is brought about by an increase in purchasing power, Keynes argues, which can come from three sectors: households, firms and government. Using the IS/MY...