Warum kommt es zu Finanzkrisen? Warum sind die Reichen reich und die Armen arm? Wie funktioniert Geld? Woher kommt das Wachstum? Schon Kinder stellen diese Fragen – aber die Ökonomen können sie nicht beantworten. Viele basteln an theoretischen Modellen, die mit der Realität nichts zu tun...

Rund die Hälfte der heute Erwerbstätigen ist im Alter akut von Altersarmut bedroht. Das ist die unmittelbare Folge eines politisch gewollten Zerstörungsprozesses, sagen die Bestseller-Autoren Holger Balodis und Dagmar Hühne. In ihrem neuen Buch fordern sie einen radikalen Kurswechsel in der...

With minimal sleight of hand, it is possible to transform the recent growth experience of the People's Republic of China from the extraordinary into the mundane. Systematic understatement of inflation by enterprises accounts for 2.5% growth per annum in the non-agricultural economy during the...

Changes in both the macroeconomy and in macroeconomics suggest that the IS-LM-AS model is no longer the best baseline model of short-run fluctuations for teaching and policy analysis. This paper presents an alternative model that replaces the assumption that the central bank targets the money...

It is not common for an entire scholarly literature to be based on a fallacy, that is, 'on faulty reasoning; misleading or unsound argument'. The 'fiscal theory of the price level', recently re-developed by Woodford, Cochrane, Sims and others, is an example of a fatally flawed research...

The welfare economic method for analyzing the case for government intervention is often criticized for ignoring the political determination of policies. While many economists accept the thrust of this critique, exactly when and how political determination interferes with a welfare economic...