"On the 25th January 2015, the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance--not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda challenged. Suddenly it seems as if there is an alternative. But what? The...

In 1999, the euro was launched on the basis of treaties structured around the new economic orthodoxy that replaced Keynesianism. The Great Recession, the Euro Crisis and now the Pandemic Crisis, all of them deflationary demand crises which are incompatible with such an orthodoxy, have had a...

Das Urteil ist vernichtend, das der renommierte Ökonom und langjährige Chefvolkswirt der UN-Organisation für Handel und Entwicklung (UNCTAD) Heiner Flassbeck (zuletzt ID-G 27/14) und sein Kollege und Syriza-Abgeordneter C. Lapavitsas über die Lage der europäischen Wirtschafts- und...