“Chimerica” illustrates the interactions between a Chinese model of high savings, overinvestment and export-led growth and the American model of leverage investment, credit consumption and finance-led growth. The collapse of the U.S model, linked with the unregulated derivatives market,...

The phenomenology of crisis is one of the most complex tasks that economics undertook and undertakes to discern. Crisis is not a new phenomenon. As a cycle sequence, either long or short, it entered the "normality" of the economic dynamics. The big ones, like the one in '29-'33 and the current...

Investigates the importance of English language sources of Friedrich Theodor Althoff (1839-1908), a German of great influence both in his own country and, indirectly, in the United States. Explores some measures of his influence in education and international understanding. Examines a wide...

"Substantial evidence shows that North Americans are generally more accepting of the market than Europeans and attribute market outcomes to a larger degree to effort or skill. This article discusses the perceived fairness of layoffs and pay cuts in North America and Germany. We expect North...

"This paper tests whether there is evidence of compression of morbidity using data from the American Health and Retirement Study and analyzes the effects of this on the labor supply of older people. We find younger cohorts to suffer less from functional problems than older cohorts at given ages....