Eine zentrale Ursache der aktuellen Krise, die von international renommierten Ökonomen betont wird aber in der öffentlichen Debatte in Deutschland noch wenig Beachtung findet, ist die rasante Zunahme der Einkommensungleichheit in vielen Industrieländern, aber auch in einigen...

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...

This article brings together the varieties of capitalism and the growth model approaches to comparative political economy to analyse the macroeconomic implications of changes in income distribution. In the decades before the financial crisis, coordinated market economies (CMEs) and liberal...

This article brings together the varieties of capitalism and the growth model approaches to comparative political economy to analyze the macroeconomic implications of changes in income distribution. In the decades before the financial crisis, coordinated market economies (CMEs) and liberal...