Today FDR's New Deal is regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to the economic crisis that propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical. Cultural historian Schivelbusch investigates their shared elements...

Angesichts seit längerer Zeit rückläufiger öffentlicher Investitionen in Deutschland wird vielfach eine deutliche Ausweitung staatlicher Infrastrukturinvestitionen gefordert, um vermeintliche oder tatsächliche Wachstumshemmnisse zu beseitigen. Vor diesem Hintergrund hat sich das ifo...

The paper provides an evaluation of the development of the South African economy since the end of apartheid in 1994. Taking the 1993 situation as the point of departure, it gives an account of the path leading to the formulation of the major policy documents, and examines to what extent their...