Money, Distribution and Economic Policy takes issue with the inappropriate treatment of money, effective demand and distribution issues in modern mainstream macroeconomics. It presents contributions which are critical of modern orthodoxy and which explore alternative approaches to macroeconomics...

Money, Distribution and Economic Policy takes issue with the inappropriate treatment of money, effective demand and distribution issues in modern mainstream macroeconomics. It presents contributions which are critical of modern orthodoxy and which explore alternative approaches to macroeconomics...

Wir analysieren die der seit 2007 anhaltenden globalen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise zugrunde liegenden langfristigen Ungleichgewichte des finanzdominierten Kapitalismus. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf den Entwicklungen in den USA und in Deutschland bzw. dem Euroraum. Wir argumentieren, dass...

With recent turmoil in financial markets around the world, this unique and up-to-date book addresses a number of challenging issues regarding monetary policy, financial markets and macroeconomic policy.

The German debt brake is often regarded as a great success story and has therefore served as a role model for the Euro area and it’s Fiscal Compact. In this paper we fundamentally criticise the debt brake. Firstly, we show that it suffers from serious shortcomings and that its success is...

The financial and economic crisis in the Euro area has revealed a number of important flaws in the economic policy framework in Europe. On the one hand, the imbalances, which have dominated European development since the introduction of the euro, are not sustainable; and this is more serious in a...

We analyze the long-run imbalances of finance-dominated capitalism underlying the present crisis, which began in 2007, with a focus on developments in the United States and Germany. We argue that beyond inefficient regulation of the financial sector, the severeness of the present crisis has been...

We analyse the long-run imbalances of finance-dominated capitalism underlying the present crisis - which began in 2007 - with a focus on developments in the US and Germany. We argue that beyond inefficient regulation of the financial sector, the severeness of the present crisis has been mainly...