The economic consequences of the war could potentially be used to postpone climate policy, energy saving and the shift to renewable energy. This includes investments in atomic energy - perhaps in smaller plants - as there is still no satisfactory solution for the storage of nuclear waste.

After President Trump's departure, many expected that the transatlantic partnership would return to its previous state with the US playing a leading role. This article challenges that view. Instead, a new world order is foreseen, with different partnerships and spheres of influence. Europe can...

The economic agenda of bringing jobs back and improving dynamics can sometimes work in the short run, if past fiscal prudence has left some space for higher government expenditures for low incomes. However, in the long run, protection and redistribution without active components, innovation and...

Political opposition to globalisation has risen in industrialized countries, although the positive overall effects on the growth of the world economy and the alleviation of poverty are empirically verifiable. However, the effects of globalisation vary according to regions, professional groups,...

Wirtschaftspolitische Begriffe, die unter nationalen Aspekten definiert wurden, müssen heute an die neuen Anforderungen von Technologieentwicklung und Globalisierung angepasst werden. So hat sich der Begriff der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von einer vorwiegend kostenseitigen Betrachtung zu einem...

In diesem Jahr werden die US-Ökonomen William D. Nordhaus und Paul M. Romer mit dem Schwedischen Reichsbankpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften zu Ehren von Alfred Nobel für ihre bahnbrechende Forschung in den Bereichen Klimawandel und Innovation ausgezeichnet. Ihre Forschung habe zu einem...

Political opposition to globalisation has risen in industrialized countries, although the positive overall effects on the growth of the world economy and the alleviation of poverty are empirically verifiable. However, the effects of globalisation vary according to regions, professional groups,...