In der Januarausgabe 2006 des WIRTSCHAFTSDIENST veröffentlichten wir einen Aufsatz von Professor Fritz Helmedag über die „Abhängigkeit der Beschäftigung von Steuern, Budgetdefiziten und Löhnen“. Nach einer Replik von Professor Bernd Lucke in der Märzausgabe desselben Jahres und einer...

Recently, F. Helmedag has made an attempt to revive the labour theory of value by trying to demonstrate the superiority of a theoretical model of the economy that uses values instead of prices of production in their traditional or in their modern form, that is Bortkiewicz- or Sraffa-prices. This...

A simple plot of seasonal adjusted quarterly data between the change of nominal wage rates and the unemployment rate for the German economy shows a picture similar to that by which Phillips was inspired to his famous discovery, that there is a long-term tendency of a negative, non-linear...