Nun äußert sich auch Heide Simonis, langjährige Finanzministerin und ehemalige Ministerpräsidentin Schleswig-Holsteins zur weltweiten Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise. Intelligent und scharfzüngig kommentiert sie das Versagen des Marktes und die Reaktionen von Politik und Staat und fordert...

It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and the punishment arena. This curious...

Despite severe economic turmoil within the last decade the stock diagnosis for most market insufficiencies has been: the state must be "slimmed down". Satisfying social needs through the free market under the slogan of "less government is good government" has been a constitutive feature of...