The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However, the size of the estimated growth rate of total...

"The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick--hedge fund strategist and author of the 2008 bestseller The...

Der Bremer Wirtschaftsprofessor (als Herausgeber: "Brauchen wir eine andere Wirtschaft?", BA 1/02) ist Mitglied der "Arbeitsgruppe Alternative Wirtschaftspolitik" und Vertreter einer ganzheitlichen ökonomischen Theorie, die - im Gegensatz zum Neoliberalismus - Sozialpolitik und Ökologie...