First paragraph: The death of Jörg Huffschmid in December 2009, at the age of 69, is a loss to critical economics and to the movement for a more just and rational economic system. Jörg worked, in Germany and in Europe as a whole, both to develop a powerful critique of orthodox economic...

In February 2015, the European Commission published a Green Paper in which it put forward the goal to 'build a true single market for capital' for all European Union member states by 2019. The present paper argues that there is no realistic prospect of achieving this goal given that the Green...

This paper sets out to explain the factors behind Ireland's exceptional period of economic growth from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s. It suggests that an unbending commitment to economic openness and an on-going effort to establish quality domestic institutions were the main drivers of the...