"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...

From the very beginning of the European Monetary Union the crucial institutions, the European Commission and the European Central Bank, led by mainstream economic thinking, were not up to their task of controlling the core of the system effectively. A huge gap in competitiveness among the member...

In der Eurokrise werden Schuldnerstaaten in ein strenges Austeritätsprogramm gedrängt. Die Autoren des Beitrags zeigen, dass die Defi zite des Staates nicht unabhängig von den Finanzierungssalden der übrigen Sektoren der Volkswirtschaft sinnvoll analysiert werden können. Das systematisch...