Books reviewed: Jonathan P. Goldstein/Michael G. Hillard (eds.) (2009): Heterodox Macroeconomics: Keynes, Marx and Globalization, London Mathew Forstater/L. Randall Wray (eds.) (2008): Keynes for the Twenty-First Century. The Continuing Relevance of The General Theory, Basingstoke L. Randall...

Die Grundzüge der Wirtschaftspolitik formulieren die Antwort der EU-Regierungen und der Kommission auf die Wachstums- und Beschäftigungsschwierigkeiten in Europa. Obwohl damit seit mehr als zehn Jahren ein wirtschaftspolitisches Konzept für die Europäische Union vorliegt, haben die dort...

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...

Rezension von: Fritz, Barbara / Hujo, Katja (Hg.) (2005): Ökonomie unter den Bedingungen Lateinamerikas. Erkundungen zu Geld und Kredit, Sozialpolitik und Umwelt, Frankfurt am Main Lavoie, Marc / Seccareccia, Mario (eds.) (2004): Central Banking in the Modern World. Alternative Perspectives,...

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...

First paragraph: During the recent decades the financial sectors of developed and developing countries as well as global financial relations have changed remarkably. The overall importance of financial factors for real investment and growth of non-financial business has risen, as has the...

First paragraph: The world economy is presently suffering from the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression in the early 1930s. As by now seems to be obvious, the present financial crisis, massive state intervention in the financial markets in order to prevent a melt-down, and...

First paragraph: The financial and economic crises which started in 2007 have triggered and motivated increasing research on finance and the instability of the financial system but also on the relationship between finance, distribution and growth. This special issue discusses various, but...

Peter Flaschel is Professor Emeritus at Bielefeld University, Germany. He holds a PhD degree in Mathematics and a Habilitation degree in Economics. He has extensively published on classical economics and heterodox macrodynamical model building. He was on numerous occasions Visiting Professor at...