The newly born, one year old State of Southern Sudan faces multiple challenges, economic, administrative, ethnic and most of all, civil conflicts with its previous mother country, Sudan. Building a state is an arduous mission and building a nation comprised of many ethnicities is the most...

Mainstream macroeconomic theory understands the economy as a phenomenon tractable by analysis adequately enough to be manageable by macroeconomic policy guided by this analysis. We explore why this epistemological approach of the economy has remained dominant in mainstream economics despite...

Strengthening budgetary surveillance and coordination of budgetary policy measures in the EU is of vital importance for economic stability and growth. The decentralised decision making structure in most areas of budgetary policies, requires the need to balance national and common objectives;...

Most of America’s wealth has not been created yet. But to fulfill the nation's potential, recognizing the limitations of today's dominant politically driven research and development approach compared to what capital markets and economic liberalization can achieve is vital. Most politicians...

The book analyzes distorted structures of the monetary and banking systems in developing countries which are common features. They negatively affect their macroeconomic efficiency and eventually lead to economic distorted performance and distortions. Sudan as an example of LDCs the banking...

Die aktuelle Diskussion um die Ausgestaltung der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Politikberatung und die zum Teil harsche Kritik von Politikern am Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung in jüngster Zeit lenkt den Blick auf den Einfluss von Ökonomen auf die...

This article shows how the network structure of economic expertise can influence the diffusion of ideas and economic policymaking in times of crisis. Applying social network analysis, we analyse the networks of economic policy advice in the United States and Germany around the Council of...

We use process tracing to test the hypothesis of a specific strategy in the process of discussing and enacting a policy agenda. Our case study is Colombia, where the trace of events and milestones allow us to detect the strategy followed in implementing neoliberal reforms during the 1980s-2000s....