Sowohl in Expertenkreisen als auch in der Öffentlichkeit wird schon länger kontrovers über die anhaltenden Niedrigzinsen diskutiert. Liegt die Ursache dieser Niedrigzinsphase an der ultralockeren Geldpolitik der Zentralbanken oder sind die Zentralbanken selbst Getriebene einer bereits länger...

The paper compares, and eventually combines, the approaches of Harold Hotelling and David Ricardo to the theory of exhaustible resources. It is argued that Hotelling and Ricardo had in mind worlds that differ in important respects. According to Ricardo the exploitation of deposits of resources...

The paper informs about the work on the edition of Piero Sraffa's Unpublished Papers and Correspondence which will be published by Cambridge University Press. The hugeness and great complexity of the material are stressed and a number of “icebergs” are identified that have to be...