First paragraph: What was your motivation to become an economist and who were your academic teachers?

Erster Absatz: Mit dem Ausbruch der größten Wirtschaftskrise seit den 1930er Jahren sehen manche, insbesondere heterodoxe Ökonominnen und Ökonomen, auch bereits das Ende der neoklassischen Vorherrschaft im Bereich ökonomischer Forschung und Lehre dräuen. Wie schon vor 1930 hat die...

First paragraph: The worldwide financial crisis, which started in the autumn 2007 at the climax of a bursting asset price bubble in the US, is still alive and with us, in spite of the tremendous, undoubtedly Keynesian and far reaching efforts of central banks and governments to mitigate its...

First paragraph: The Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) has existed since 1996 as a platform for analysis, research and discussion of macroeconomic issues. It is primarily based in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but it has established close links to similar...

First paragraph: In early August 2009 the 2nd Summer School of the Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) was held in Berlin. As in the previous year, about 50 graduate students, young researchers and senior lecturers from all over the world came together to discuss...

First paragraph: The world economy is presently suffering from the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression in the early 1930s. As by now seems to be obvious, the present financial crisis, massive state intervention in the financial markets in order to prevent a melt-down, and...

Books reviewed: Robert Leeson (ed.) (2008): The Keynesian Tradition, Basingstoke Robert Leeson (ed.) (2008): The Anti-Keynesian Tradition, Basingstoke Stefan Ederer (2008): Einkommensverteilung und gesamtwirtschaftliche Nachfrage in Österreich und den Niederlanden, Marburg Neva Goodwin/Julie A....

The micro-foundations of the Chinese growth model are analysed within a comprehensive monetary theory of economic development, based on Schumpeter, Keynes, and the contemporary monetary Keynesians. The Confucian traditions and the Leninist party power structure are identified as the main...

The traditional debate on the real and financial consequences of ageing is based on two assumptions: a deteriorating old-age dependency ratio and declining productivity of an ageing population. Both suppositions are questionable. Relevant for the future burden is not the old-age dependency ratio...

The paper examines the development of incomes in Germany at different welfare levels, together with current trends in poverty. The analyses are based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which provides detailed annual information on incomes starting in the mid-1980s....