The Financial Crisis of 2008, and the Great Recession in its wake, have shaken up macroeconomics. The paradigm of the "New" Neoclassical Synthesis, which seemed to provide a robust framework of analysis for short-run macro not long ago, fails to capture key elements of the recent crisis. This...

The current crisis is like an earthquake for the theoretical foundations of economic policies, which have guided governments and central banks for the last few decades. The efficient market hypothesis and its application to labor markets –“natural rate theory”- dominated interpretations of...

Die Finanzkrise 2008 hat die Weltwirtschaft an den Rand des Abgrunds getrieben. Doch ihre Ursachen sind bis heute weder verstanden noch behoben worden. Marc Friedrich und Matthias Weik zeigen, warum der Kapitalismus immer wieder daran scheitert, unseren enormen Wohlstand fair und nachhaltig zu...