the early 1970s up to the beginning of the period of the great reforms launched in the 1990s. First and foremost, it …

Most mainstream neoclassical economists completely failed to anticipate the crisis which broke in 2007 and 2008. There … writers to incorporate an analysis of periodic crisis in his analysis of capitalist accumulation. The paper then considers the …

Most mainstream neoclassical economists completely failed to anticipate the crisis which broke in 2007 and 2008. There … writers to incorporate an analysis of periodic crisis in his analysis of capitalist accumulation. The paper then considers the …

Most mainstream neoclassical economists completely failed to anticipate the crisis which broke in 2007 and 2008. There … writers to incorporate an analysis of periodic crisis in his analysis of capitalist accumulation. The paper then considers the …

Every crisis should teach us a valuable lesson. However, it seems that we learn almost nothing since they still occur …

is even applicable. Since policy makers have to understand the roots and the dimension of the crisis in order to seize … to make sure that the roots of the crisis are similar. So this paper addresses the question: Is the current financial … crisis similar to the Great Depression? For that purpose I will systematically compare the Great Recession with the Great …

Most mainstream neoclassical economists completely failed to anticipate the crisis which broke in 2007 and 2008. There … writers to incorporate an analysis of periodic crisis in his analysis of capitalist accumulation. The paper then considers the …

Although demographic change leaves pay-as-you-go pension systems unsustainable, reforms, such as a higher pension age …

couples who have low earnings. Recent reforms to strengthen work incentives have altered the in-work tax credits, rather than … the benefit system, and recent reforms to the out-of-work benefits have involved toughening and extending job …-search requirements. The two main political parties seem to agree that future reforms will involve more conditionality, a greater use of …

future. Due to the continuing economic crisis, the public scheme is currently under enormous financial strain, with a …