This is a critical review of what the Marxist scientific literature presents on the forms of countertendency to falling profit rates carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 33 articles included in this review were studied using a Marxist approach. The following elements of the articles...

Auch wenn die Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf die Sozialversicherungen bisher nur leicht spürbar sind, zeichnet sich das Ende der Schonfrist ab. Der Fachkräftemangel auf dem Arbeitsmarkt verschärft sich spürbar und die politische Diskussion über Maßnahmen zur Anwerbung von...

We are pleased to note that the discussion paper we wrote ("How to change a constitution by handwaving") has attracted some interest from the public and observers of economic policy. Among the more thoughtful responses the paper has received is that from the Foundation for Economic Freedom...

Die in den letzten Jahren stark gestiegene Inflation beschäftigt nicht nur die Währungshüter, sondern beunruhigt auch Verbraucher:innen und Politik. Der Europäischen Zentralbank wird vorgeworfen, mit ihren Inflationsprognosen in den Jahren 2021 und 2022 die tatsächliche Entwicklung deutlich...

The interface of political economy with arts and literature has become dominated by a particular image: capital's Grinch-like theft of the future. But this image overlooks the peculiar temporal structure of neoliberalism, which renews its broken promises by making up ever more excuses for the...

I argue that meta-ignorance and meta-insensitivity are the key sources influencing the reoccurrence of the (un)conscious misrepresentation of marginalized groups in management and organization research; such misrepresentation, in effect, perpetuates epistemic neocolonialism. Meta-ignorance...

This note, responding to suggestions that neoliberalism is "in decline" as a guiding ideology of economic policymaking and model of political-economic practice, argues for a reserved attitude toward such claims given their having been so numerous and so consistently incorrect in the past; the...

The quest to ensure that the tax planning activities (e.g., shifting profits through transfer mispricing) of multinational enterprises operating in Nigeria do not erode the country’s domestic base has led to the enactment and enforcement of the Transfer Pricing (TP) Regulation, 2018 in...

Using data on the NBER working paper series, we show that the dissemination of economics research suffers from a congestion problem: An increase in the number of weekly released working papers on average reduces downloads, abstract views, and media attention for each paper. Subsequent publishing...

Does U.S. military aid make the United States safer? Or does it have unintended consequences for U.S. security? To answer these questions, we estimate the effect of U.S. military aid on anti-American terrorism for a sample of 174 countries between 1968 and 2018. We find that higher levels of aid...

This note considers David Rodgers' argument against the relevance of the term "neoliberalism" on the grounds that it combines disparate phenomena perhaps more usefully treated separately—in particular, "market fundamentalism"; a model of financialized-globalized capitalism; "disaster...

This paper deals with the proposed use of sovereign credit ratings in the "Basel Accord on Capital Adequacy" (Basel II) and considers its potential effect on emerging markets financing. It investigates in a first attempt the consequences of the planned revisions on the two central aspects of...

One of the principal achievements of the GATT Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations (1986-1994), which resulted in the establishment of the World Trade Organization ("WTO"), was the creation of a ground-breaking system for the resolution of trade disputes between WTO Members. This...

Die Autoren Clemens Fuest, Udo die Fabio und Gabriel Felbermayr haben die Effizienz staatlicher Eingriffe anhand verschiedener Beispiele untersucht und analysiert, ob man dieselben Ziele nicht mit anderen Mitteln besser und zu geringeren Kosten erreichen könnte. Ihr Fazit: Nicht alles, was gut...

This working paper takes up the question of the "decline" of the neoliberal economic model. Acknowledging the reality of not only the generally weak growth during which that model has prevailed (from the late 1970s on) but the post-Great Recession slowdown in that growth, with its implications...

Islam introduces a system that encompasses and concerns all areas of human life, and the economic structure, which occupies an important place and significance in this human life, is a crucial part of this system. Based on their considerations of the Qur'an and hadith sources, Islamic scholars...

The Climate Change Committee was established by the Climate Change Act 2008 to advise government on climate policies, in particular with respect to carbon budgets and emissions targets for the period up to 2050.The quality of the CCC’s advice is questionable, in particular with respect to the...

New frameworks for monetary policy have been proposed in response to the Great recession, the slow recovery afterward, and the problem of short-term nominal interest rates at the zero bound. One school of thought that emerged is called "market monetarism," advocating, along with other proposals,...

The nature of citizen participation in public life in Thailand has changed over the past three decades. In order to understand and explain how and why Thai citizens get (or do not get) involved in politics, this paper argues that traditional conceptual and analytical frameworks derived from the...

Frederick 2013 (the critique) offers criticisms of the Escape from Leviathan (EfL) theory of libertarian liberty and of its compatibility with preference-utilitarian welfare and private-property anarchy. This reply to the critique first explains the underlying philosophical problem with...

Gegen den Landeshaushalt 2022 des Freistaats Thüringen bestehen nach Einschätzung von Helmut Siekmann erhebliche verfassungsrechtliche Bedenken. In einem Gutachten kommt Siekmann zu dem Schluss, dass sich die festgestellten globalen Minderausgaben im Vergleich zum gesamten Haushaltsvolumen...

Die Schuldenbremse verbietet den Bundesländern in wirtschaftlichen Normalzeiten die Aufnahme von Schulden selbst zur Finanzierung langfristiger Zukunftsprojekte. Dies wird ökonomischen Überlegungen zur Rechtfertigung einer Schuldenaufnahme nicht gerecht. Wie in der betrieblichen...

Die Feststellung einer außergewöhnlichen Notsituation für das Saarland für das Haushaltsjahr 2022 ist nachvollziehbar, gerechtfertigt und vernünftig. Der Plan, die staatlichen Kosten eines infolge des Ukraine-Krieges beschleunigten Transformationstempos über ein Sondervermögen zu...

Economic analysts have used trends in total factor productivity (TFP) to evaluate the effectiveness with which economies are utilizing advances in technology. However, this measure is problematic on several different dimensions. First, the idea that it is possible to separate out the relative...