Global crises are very rare events. After the Great Depression and the Great Stagflation, new macroeconomic paradigms associated with a new policy regime emerged. This book addresses how some macroeconomic ideas have failed, and examines which theories researchers should preserve and develop. It...

How is work divided up in the household, within an industry, a nation or between continents? What are the dynamics of the division of labour? The wide-ranging contributions to this book explore these questions from technological, capital and political perspectives. They include in-depth studies...

Im vorliegenden Aufsatz werden die Gründe für den Unterschied zwischen den Arbeitlosenquoten in Europa und den Vereinigten Staaten erläutert. Nach Solow ist die Ursache der Arbeitslosigkeit nicht allein die Arbeitsmarktrigidität in Europa, sondern ebenfalls die geringe Nachfrage nach Arbeit,...