In den letzten zweihundert Jahren ist der Kapitalismus aus allen Krisen gestärkt hervorgegangen. Diesmal jedoch ist alles anders, der Kapitalismus schwächelt. Ein weltweiter Kollaps wurde nur dank massiver staatlicher Intervention abgewendet, doch für wie lange? Die Politik zeigt sich...

The autumn of humanity -- Part I. Automation: The case for technological unemployment -- Why you should hate your job -- Giving techno-pessimism its due -- Part II. Utopia: In search of utopia -- The cyborg utopia -- The virtual utopia -- The unending quest.

"Economics and science fiction rarely have much to do with each other. As a discipline, economics is far removed from creative writing. Science fiction arguably tells us little about the reality of day-to-day capitalism. Economic Science Fictions challenges and changes that. By treating our...

This paper examines the corporation tax forecasting techniques used by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. For current year forecasts a judgemental forecast is found to have performed better than relying solely on a simple model or information on the receipts available so far in the current...

If oil exporters stabilize the purchasing power of their export revenues in terms of imports, exchange rate developments (and particularly, developments in the US dollar/euro exchange rate) may contain information about oil price changes. This hypothesis depends on three conditions: (a) OPEC has...