Die Weltwirtschaft befindet sich in einer der dramatischsten Episoden ihrer jüngsten Geschichte. Die weltweite Produktion von Gütern und Dienstleistungen verzeichnet einen Einbruch in einem seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929/30 nicht gekannten Ausmaß. Aber neben diesen ökonomischen Effekten...

Die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise hat einen massiven Anstieg der staatlichen Verschuldung nach sich gezogen, ohne dass der europäische Stabilitäts- und Wachstumspakt dies hätte verhindern können. Es ist offenkundig geworden, dass die bestehenden institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen für die...

Public debt has increased sharply during the financial and economic crisis. The European stability and growth pact could not have prevented this from happening. It follows that the institutional framework of the European Monetary Union is inadequate. Nonetheless, the current debate about...

Books reviewed: Davidson, Paul (2007): John Maynard Keynes, London/New York Godley, Wynne / Lavoie, Marc (2007): Monetary Economics. An Integrated Approach to Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth, Houndmills et al. McCombie, John / Rodriguez Gonzales, Carlos (eds.)(2007): The European...

First paragraph: The financial market crisis that transformed into a global recession is a challenge for both economic theory and policy. In retrospect, nearly three years after the first signs of the crisis, a few tentative conclusions concerning the appropriateness and effectiveness of the...

First paragraph: The recession of 2009 following the financial market crisis of 2008 was severe, especially in Europe. World GDP decreased by 0.6 per cent, the GDP of the USA by 2.6 per cent, and in the European Monetary Union (EMU) it declined by 4.1 per cent (IMK/OFCE/WIFO 2011). The...

We review post-Keynesian assessments of the macroeconomic demand and growth impacts of financialisation. First, we examine the channels of influence of financialisation on distribution and on the different components of private aggregate demand, i.e. investment, consumption and net exports....

The macroeconomic effects of 'financialisation' are assessed applying two different variants of a Kaleckian model of distribution and growth. The focus is on the effects of changes in distribution between shareholders/rentiers, firms and workers, as well as on the effects of increasing...

We review recent attempts to integrate 'financialisation' processes into Post-Keynesian distribution and growth models and distinguish three principal channels of influence: 1. objectives and finance restrictions of firms, 2. new opportunities for households' wealth-based and debt-financed...