Die Eurokrise hat tiefgreifende Veränderungen im Gefüge von Institutionen und Kompetenzen in der Europäischen Union angestoßen, dafür stehen der 'Fiskalpakt' und die 'excessive imbalance procedure'. Ein effi zientes Governance-System hat sich aber bisher nicht herausgebildet. Die einzelnen...

Rezension von: Corneo, Giacomo (2006): New Deal für Deutschland, Frankfurt a. M./New York Truger, Achim (Hg.) (2006): Die Zukunft des deutschen Steuersystems, Marburg Hödl, Erich (Hg.) (2006): Aspekte einer europäischen Wirtschaftsordnung, Marburg Hayden, F. Gregory (2006): Policymaking for a...

Books reviewed: Schettkat, Ronald/Langkau, Jochem (Hg.) (2007): Aufschwung für Deutschland. Plädoyer international renommierter Ökonomen für eine bessere Wirtschaftspolitik, Bonn Roncaglia, Alessandro/Sylos Labini, Paolo (2008): Geschichte des ökonomischen Denkens. Eine kurze Einführung,...

First paragraph: Evaluating economic research today is a most contested field. This applies, most notably, since individual careers of a whole generation of critical young economists are affected. And it applies in economics, perhaps more than in any other discipline, since it is the most...

First paragraph: Evolutionary-institutional economics is more than 110 years old. It started with Thorstein B. Veblen's fundamental criticism, put forward in a bulk of papers and books from the 1880s on, of the then just-established ›neo-classical‹ economic mainstream. Veblen had worked...

This keynote reflects on the phased-out original neoclassical research program and the dominance of originally heterodox issues and questions, all beyond the 'optimality and equilibrium of the market economy', in modern cutting-edge economic research. This provides opportunities for heterodoxies...

Complexity economics has developed into a powerful empirical, theoretical, and computational research program in the last three decades, advancing more realistic economics. It converges with long-standing heterodox schools, and its theoretical and empirical findings are consistent with older...