Das im EWU-Vergleich zurückbleibende deutsche Wirtschaftswachstum wird immer wieder zum Anlass genommen, vor allem auf dem Arbeitsmarkt stärkere Flexibilität einzufordern. Sind die Ursachen für das schwache Wirtschaftswachstum Deutschlands tatsächlich primär auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu suchen?...

In einer radikalen Deregulierung des Arbeitsmarktes und tiefen Einschnitten in das System der sozialen Sicherung wird zumeist die einzige Möglichkeit gesehen, Deutschland aus seiner wirtschaftlichen „Schlusslichtposition“ zu manövrieren. Welche ökonomischen Argumente stehen hinter diesen...

This paper traces the euro zone’s inadequate macroeconomic performance in recent years back to the predominance of a restrictive macroeconomic policy mix based on a ‘new monetarist’ approach to economic policy. An approach based on a (post-)Keynesian analysis is presented as a growth and...

The Broad Economic Policy Guidelines contain the answers of the European Commission and the governments of the EU-member countries to the European growth and employment problems. These guidelines have been the major EU-economic policy concept for around ten years now. They can be seen as a...

This paper traces the euro zone’s inadequate macroeconomic performance in recent years back to the predominance of a restrictive macroeconomic policy mix based on a ‘new monetarist’ approach to economic policy. An approach based on a (post-)Keynesian analysis is presented as a growth and...

The Broad Economic Policy Guidelines contain the answers of the European Com-mission and the EU-governments to the growth and employment problems in the EU. These guidelines have been the EU-economic policy concept for ten years now, but this concept has not been able to generate sustained...