A central cause of the crisis, which the public debate has taken little notice of so far, is the rapid increase of income inequality in many industrialised countries, but also in some emerging economies. In the USA many private households have reacted to stagnating real incomes by increasingly...

We review recent attempts to integrate 'financialisation' processes into Post-Keynesian distribution and growth models and distinguish three principal channels of influence: 1. objectives and finance restrictions of firms, 2. new opportunities for households' wealth-based and debt-financed...

The macroeconomic effects of "financialisation" are assessed applying two different variants of a Kaleckian model of distribution and growth. The focus is on the effects of changes in distribution between shareholders/rentiers, firms and workers, as well as on the effects of increasing...

We review post-Keynesian assessments of the macroeconomic demand and growth impacts of financialisation. First, we examine the channels of influence of financialisation on distribution and on the different components of private aggregate demand, i.e. investment, consumption and net exports....

Zu den großen und drängenden Herausforderungen gehört ein rasches und entschlossenes Handeln, das das Zusammenwachsen der EU fördert, einschließlich der Gründung einer demokratisch kontrollierten europäischen finanzpolitischen Instanz. Die Europäische Zentralbank verschafft den...

Der Leiter eines gewerkschaftsnahen wissenschaftlichen Instituts analysiert die Wirtschaftskrise vor dem Hintergrund wachsender sozialer Ungleichheit und formuliert Lösungsvorschläge für die deutsche und europäische Wirtschaftspolitik. (Jürgen Plieninger)