Achieving low unemployment in an environment of weak growth is a major policy challenge; a more egalitarian distribution of hours worked could be the key to solving it. Whether worksharing actually increases employment, however, has been debated controversially. In this article we present...

The paper analyses the economic policy-making in the first phase of the epidemic in five Central Europe countries, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We focus on the participatory character of the governments'...

Erster Absatz: Lateinamerika wird nunmehr durchwegs von linken bzw. sozialliberalen Regierungen dominiert. Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivien), Michelle Bachelet (Chile), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Brasilien) und Tabaré Vasquez (Uruguay) sind die weit über den Kontinent hinaus...

Books reviewed: G.C. Harcourt, Prue Kerr (2009): Joan Robinson, Basingstoke Tracy Mott (2010): Kalecki's Principle of Increasing Risk and Keynesian Economics, New York David Colander (ed.) (2006): Post Walrasian Macroeconomics. Beyond the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model, Cambridge...