The sovereign debt problems in European countries have increased the interest in fiscal watchdogs. This paper discusses the world's oldest fiscal watchdog, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB). CPB was founded directly after World War II. It has built a reputation of...

This article argues that the current crisis of environmental degradation and global inequality is caused by the dominance of the philosophical principles of individualism and neo-liberalism in public and private economic decision-making since the 1970s. This crisis can be overcome by a...

Government policy can greatly benefit from the insights of economic science, in particular when the specific national circumstances and preferences are taken into account. This chapter shows that this does not only apply to traditional topics of economic science like fiscal policy (the...