The Great Recession after 2008 did not turn out to be as deep and severe as the Great Depression of the 1930s. According to the European Commission, this positive result is due to the fact that economic policy-makers around the world learnt their lessons from the Great Depression in stabilizing...

Durch die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise sind einschneidende Veränderungen im ökonomischen Governance-System der EU ausgelöst worden. Die im Zuge der Krise ergriffenen Maßnahmen werden hier kritisch untersucht. Dabei stellt der Autor fest, dass die Veränderungen den Empfehlungen des „Old...

It will be argued that it is not of fundamental importance for growth and employment whether the EU clings to the Euro or allows for a dissolution of the Eurozone and a reemergence of national currencies but how multi-level macroeconomic coordination of different policy areas and nation-states...