This article explores how German pension and retirement policy could be made more sustainable, focusing on selected current options for action rather than attempting to provide a comprehensive overview. Before turning to specific problems and perspectives, the article first discusses key...

More than just a few politicians and scientists see an imbalance in policy's primary orientation toward economic goals, especially the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In view of scientific and public discourses on prosperity, this report analyzes how voting-eligible Germans, the electorate, rated...

Politics and business often involve making risky or dangerous decisions whose outcomes can be predicted only with difficulty, if at all. As attitudes toward risks and dangers vary between individuals, it is reasonable that people with different attitudes are active in areas requiring decisions...

Plenty of people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that gross domestic product (GDP) is an outdated indicator of a society's prosperity. Therefore, at the end of 2010, the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, established a study commission (Enquete Kommission)...

Politics and business often involve making risky or dangerous decisions whose outcomes can be predicted only with difficulty, if at all. As attitudes toward risks and dangers vary between individuals, it is reasonable that people with different attitudes are active in areas requiring decisions...

Plenty of people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that gross domestic product (GDP) is an outdated indicator of a society's prosperity. Therefore, at the end of 2010, the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, established a study commission (Enquete Kommission)...

Seit Januar liegen die abschließenden Empfehlungen des Wissenschaftsrates zu den großen Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituten vor. Damit kann die Diskussion um deren Rolle in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften und der Politikberatung, die in den letzten Monaten weitgehend hinter verschlossenen Türen...

Anläßlich eines Symposiums, veranstaltet vom neu gegründeten Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) in Bonn, legten sechs Ökonomen in einer „Petersberger Erklärung' Thesen zur Arbeitsmarktpolitik vor. Nachfolgend der Wortlaut der Erklärung

Die Hartz-Kommission hat ausgehend vom „Statistikskandal“ bei der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit auch für deren Statistiken und die Arbeitsmarktforschung Reformen vorgeschlagen. Professor Gert G. Wagner plädiert darüber hinaus für den Aufbau einer informationellen Infrastruktur von...