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...

Vermehrte öffentliche Investitionen in Bildung, Infrastruktur und ökologische Erneuerung sind in Deutschland nicht nur dringend erforderlich, sondern können zudem den schwachen privaten Investitionen Antrieb verleihen. Zwar verringert sich der Überschuss der öffentlichen Haushalte durch die...

In this paper the main developments in post-Keynesian macroeconomics since the mid- 1990s will be reviewed. For this purpose the main differences between heterodox economics in general, including post-Keynesian economics, and orthodox economics will be reiterated and an overview over the strands...

The current Covid-19 Crisis 2020 has hit the Eurozone in a highly fragile situation, with a weak and asymmetric recovery from the Great Financial Crisis, the Great Recession and the following Eurozone Crisis. These crises have also revealed the weaknesses of the macroeconomic policy institutions...

In this paper the main developments in post-Keynesian macroeconomics since the mid-1990s will be reviewed. For this purpose the main differences between heterodox economics in general, including post-Keynesian economics, and orthodox economics will be reiterated and an overview over the strands...

Die aktuell hohen Risiken und Unsicherheiten erfordern einen wirtschaftspolitischen Dreiklang: Erstens sollte der verbreiteten Abkehr vom Multilateralismus aktiv mit niedrigen Zöllen begegnet werden; zweitens muss der Euroraum institutionell gestärkt werden, so dass Staatsanleihen der...