Der Aufschwung beflügelt, die Rezession deprimiert. Die Wirtschaft bestimmt unser Schicksal. Für die Politik ist kein Thema wichtiger. Wirtschaft sozial gestalten und Wachstumskräfte fördern: das ist das Konzept des Sozialstaates. Aber das Klima wird rauer. Die Gewichte verschieben sich in...

This volume integrates historical and policy-oriented papers dealing with the relevance of the Keynesian approach for economic theory, policy, and crisis analysis. The first part of the volume focuses on historical, theoretical, and methodological issues, putting them in current codex. The...

Creating a Learning Society explains how the countries of the world went from centuries of stagnation to the enormous increases in standards of living that have marked the last two hundred and fifty years: they have learned how to learn. Yet, as Stiglitz and Greenwald make clear, markets won't...

During the colonial period, Laos welcomed the smallest overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, communities that almost disappeared after the communist forces seized power in Laos in 1975. Yet, this landlocked country shares a long history with China and even experienced a Golden Age...