Ein allgemein verständliches Werk über Staatsschulden von einem Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und einem Wirtschaftsjournalisten, das auf Staatsverschuldung, auf die Geschichte des Defizits in Deutschland im Allgemeinen und in der jüngsten Finanzkrise im Besonderen eingeht. 1/3 des Buches geht...

Normative political theory is divided on whether questions of distributive justice properly extend beyond the state. From a functionalist perspective, however, justice reflects a balance of material forces, subject to the logics of ‘market' and ‘social' justice, or ‘capitalism' and...

This paper asks whether rating agencies played a passive role or were an active driving force during Europe's sovereign debt crisis. We address this by estimating relationships between sovereign debt ratings and macroeconomic and structural variables. We then use these equ-ations to decompose...

Since the onset of the sovereign debt crisis, the crisis-stricken countries in Europe have been pushed to take drastic steps to consolidate their finances and reduce their budget deficits. Despite strong public opposition and largely damaging short-run effects, the countries have undertaken many...