Despite its efforts and obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, the EU has not succeeded in even making a dent in the rapidly rising trend of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions. If anything, the trend has accelerated in recent years. In his Thünen Lecture given to the German Economic Association...

After the recent global financial crisis several countries on the eurozone's south-western periphery, in particular Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, have faced severe difficulties involving the risk of sovereign debt defaults and a new banking crisis. Other EU countries, above all France,...

In seiner Replik zu Jürgen Kromphardts "Gegen-Anmerkung" führt Hans-Werner Sinn aus, dass Kromphardts Aussagen über die Lohnstückkosten und die Erhöhung der Stückgewinne für sich genommne zwar korrekt, seine Schlussfolgerung, dass die höheren Stückgewinne auf einen unausgenutzten...