Als die Ökonomen die Weltbühne betraten. Binyamin Appelbaum legt eine originelle Ideengeschichte und ein unvergessliches Porträt der Wirtschafts-Wissenschaftler vor, die in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts zum weltweiten Aufstieg des Neo-Liberalismus beigetragen haben. Sie waren die Vertreter...

F. A. Hayek took two trips to Chile, the first in 1977, the second in 1981. The visits were controversial. On the first trip he met with Genera l Augusto Pinochet, who had led a coup that overthrew Salvador Allende in 1973. During his 1981 visit, Hayek gave interviews that were published in the...

In spite of the manifold critique about the state of economics in the aftermath of the financial crisis, an even increasing presence of economists and economic experts can be observed in the public sphere during the last years. On the one hand this reflects the still dominant position of...