A central cause of the crisis, which the public debate has taken little notice of so far, is the rapid increase of income inequality in many industrialised countries, but also in some emerging economies. In the USA many private households have reacted to stagnating real incomes by increasingly...

We analyse the long-run imbalances of finance-dominated capitalism underlying the present crisis - which began in 2007 - with a focus on developments in the US and Germany. We argue that beyond inefficient regulation of the financial sector, the severeness of the present crisis has been mainly...

Das Diskussionspapier liefert eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme verschiedener theoretischer Ansätze und empirischer Ergebnisse hinsichtlich der Wirkungen der Steuerpolitik auf Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit. In Anlehnung an den Mainstream der ökonomischen und finanzwissenschaftlichen...