Crypto assets' partial money-like use promotes toxic developments in the financial system. Even though crypto assets might be regarded as close substitutes to traditional money, we show that they lack important functions of money. Traditional fiat money requires several interacting institutions...

Crypto assets' partial money-like use promotes toxic developments in the financial system. Even though crypto assets might be regarded as close substitutes to traditional money, we show that they lack important functions of money. Traditional fiat money requires several interacting institutions...

Kryptoassets haben seit 2017 zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Symptomatisch dafür sind auch ihre geldartigen Funktionen im Kontext des Krieges gegen die Ukraine. Deshalb von einer Zeitenwende im Finanzsystem zu sprechen, wäre allerdings (noch) verfrüht. Vielmehr destabilisiert das wachsende,...

An economy with a stable medium-term growth rate of zero - or any other politically determined growth rate - needs new regulations and institutions to realise this target. Such an economy would look very different compared with the existing type of capitalism we have today in the Global North....

Leaving labour markets to the market mechanism with flexible wages is the worst thing that can happen as the result would be a permanent destabilisation of the price level and an explosion of inequality—both of which adds to the instabilities of capitalism. Guarantee of minimum wages can play...