Empirical research based on the Bhaduri/Marglin-variant of the Kaleckian model has recently shown that aggregate demand in many medium-sized and large open economies tends to be wage-led in the medium to long run, even in a period of increasing globalisation. In this paper we extend this type of...

In dem Report werden die möglichen mittel- bis langfristigen Investitions- und Wachstumswirkungen der strukturellen Veränderungen des deutschen Finanzsystems, ausgehend von einer Reihe von Gesetzesreformen seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre, untersucht. Ein Vergleich mit den USA zeigt dabei, dass...

The financial and economic crisis in the Euro area has revealed a number of important flaws in the economic policy framework in Europe. On the one hand, the imbalances, which have dominated European development since the introduction of the euro, are not sustainable; and this is more serious in a...

Money, Distribution and Economic Policy takes issue with the inappropriate treatment of money, effective demand and distribution issues in modern mainstream macroeconomics. It presents contributions which are critical of modern orthodoxy and which explore alternative approaches to macroeconomics...

Welcher Zusammenhang besteht zwischen Loehnen und Beschaeftigung? Wie beeinflussen die Loehne die Einkommensverteilung und wie wirkt sich die Einkommensverteilung wiederum auf das Wirtschaftswachstum aus? Im heutigen Mainstream scheinen diese Fragen abschließend geklaert zu sein: Es herrscht...

The world economy is in crisis. Since the initial turbulences in the U.S. subprime mortgage market in the summer of 2007, we have experienced a global recession in 2008-9 and a wave of financial speculation threatening the existence of the European Monetary Union in 2009-10. At the same time,...

Over the last 30 years or so the developments in the area of monetary and macroeconomic policies have been quite substantial. Within the new consensus macroeconomics (NCM), monetary policy is upgraded while fiscal policy is downgraded. This new monetary policy has been the main instrument of...

This volume challenges the view that unemployment is exclusively determined by structural characteristics of the labour market and the social benefit system. Macroeconomic policies and investment in capital stock are included into the analysis and it is shown that they have a major role to play....

Die neunziger Jahre erlebten in Europa die wirtschaftspolitische Dominanz eines neu-monetaristischen oekonomischen Paradigmas, das auch die Architektur der Europaeischen Waehrungsunion wesentlich praegte: Unabhaengige Zentralbanken sind demnach einzig und allein auf das Ziel der...

During the recent decades the financial sectors of developed and developing countries have changed remarkably. There has been a major increase in the degree of financial intermediation, and new financial instruments, triggered by national and international legal liberalisation and by the...