This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....

Sparpolitik als Antwort auf Finanzmarktkrise und Staatsschuldenkrise? Ein amerikanischer Professor für Internationale Wirtschaftspolitik zeigt in einer historischen und aktuellen Studie die unvermeidbar negativen Folgen der heute in Europa weit verbreiteten Politik auf. (Jürgen Plieninger)

"Imperial Inequalities takes Western European empires and their legacies as the explicit starting point for discussion of issues of taxation and welfare. In doing so, it addresses the institutional and fiscal processes involved in modes of extraction, taxation, and the hierarchies of welfare...