Over the last thirty years or so the developments in the area of monetary and macroeconomic policies have been quite substantial. Within the new consensus macroeconomics (NCM), monetary policy is upgraded while fiscal policy is downgraded. This new monetary policy has been the main instrument of...

Within the New Consensus Macroeconomics, monetary policy is upgraded while fiscal policy is downgraded. This new monetary policy has been the main instrument of policy under the guise of inflation targeting, an approach pursued by a number of central banks worldwide. This book raises problems...

Modern monetary economists argue that institutional aspects such as central bank independence and central bank conservatism play an important role for the performance of an economy. In order to be able to compare the effects of different institutions it is necessary to measure both central bank...

Geld ist mehr als ein bedruckter Papierschein oder ein Eintrag auf einem Bankkonto: Es ist eine komplexe soziale Infrastruktur, die das Zusammenleben in modernen Gesellschaften in vielerlei Hinsicht ermöglicht und prägt. Woraus besteht diese Infrastruktur, und was an ihr ist politisch? Die im...