The paper describes the development of the social economy in Montreal between 2013 and 2019. In the Canadian political system, the provincial and federal governments play an important role in implementing enabling policies for the social economy, and municipalities have a limited capacity to...

This paper discusses the implications of autonomous-connected-electric-shared vehicles (ACES) for public finance, which have so far been widely ignored. In OECD countries, 5-12% of federal and up to 30% of local tax revenue are currently from fuel and vehicle taxation. The diffusion of ACES will...

Die Bundesregierung ist derzeit nicht nur bemüht, die Vereinbarungen aus dem Koalitionsvertrag umzusetzen, sondern plant darüber hinaus weitere Gesetzesvorhaben. Doch gleichzeitig lässt das Wachstum der Steuereinnahmen nach. So übersteigen die resultierenden Mehrausgaben den...

In 1905, Georg Friedrich Knapp published The State Theory of Money in his native German, claiming that money is a "creature of law" and not connected to metals via some intrinsic value. When the English translation appeared in 1924, apparently at the wishes of John Maynard Keynes, the German...