It can be argued that the rich world has long reached the social limits to growth, which were presciently seen by key figures in post-Keynesian economics. Reducing working hours, therefore, may have a greater potential to increase people's life satisfaction than more economic growth. One of the...

This paper investigates the role of family firms in the fall of the labor share and rise in corporate saving in Germany from 1993 to 2019. Combining a new Family Ownership and Governance (FOG) database with financial data, we analyze 929 publicly listed firms. Our findings show that firm-level...

This paper investigates the role of family firms in the fall of the labor share and rise in corporate saving in Germany from 1993 to 2019. Combining a new Family Ownership and Governance (FOG) database with financial data, we analyze 929 publicly listed firms. Our findings show that firm-level...

This paper investigates the role of family firms in the fall of the labor share and rise in corporate saving in Germany from 1993 to 2019. Combining a new Family Ownership and Governance (FOG) database with financial data, we analyze 929 publicly listed firms. Our findings show that firm-level...

We review post-Keynesian assessments of the macroeconomic demand and growth impacts of financialisation. First, we examine the channels of influence of financialisation on distribution and on the different components of private aggregate demand, i.e. investment, consumption and net exports....

We conduct a survey to test for concerns about relative standing based on a large sample of the German population. Our survey approach asks respondents to choose between two hypothetical states of the world, in which they receive either a larger relative endowment or a larger absolute endowment...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die strukturellen Schwächen ökonomischer Wissenstests hinsichtlich ihrer oft implizit normativen und politisch einseitigen Grundannahmen. Es wird die Frage nach der Objektivität ökonomischen Wissens gestellt und hinterfragt, inwiefern Wissenstests ideologisch...