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Weiterlesen: What Isabella Weber Writes – and What She Does Not
What Isabella Weber Writes – and What She Does Not
Isabella Weber is currently causing a major uproar with her book on an “Antifascist Economic Policy.” Critics are blustering that it preaches socialism; that the state cannot, after all, regulate everything. Is that true? A book review.
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Weiterlesen: Between Rise-and-Grind and Public Ownership — What Can Help Germany?
Between Rise-and-Grind and Public Ownership — What Can Help Germany?
A paradigm, that sounds like something pretty abstract. Just how effective such a social model can be becomes clear whenever it has become very powerful—as, for example, during the heyday of market liberalism, when the guiding principle was to leave everything to the market, and even the Democrats and Greens thought privatization was great, until…
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Weiterlesen: United in Anger – What Unites the French and the Germans
United in Anger – What Unites the French and the Germans
Burning schools, debt panic on the financial markets, and a far-right party that could be governing the country within a few months: what is currently converging in France makes German complaints look almost quaint by comparison.
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Weiterlesen: The Fatal Consequences of Germany’s Desire for Decline
The Fatal Consequences of Germany’s Desire for Decline
The Chancellor recently said, after his electoral defeat, that one should also mention what is good in Germany.
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Weiterlesen: Inflation shocks – the underestimated driver of discontent
Inflation shocks – the underestimated driver of discontent
When there is a larger influx of people into Germany, more people vote for extreme parties. So the claim goes. In reality, a different connection becomes much clearer on closer inspection: support for populists has risen sharply when inflation is high.
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Weiterlesen: Lessons from Trump’s election victory – an interview in search of the causes
Lessons from Trump’s election victory – an interview in search of the causes
Is active regional development policy the key to combating rising populism? Economist Robert Gold explains why regional support in the US has (so far) produced no measurable effects, how regional policy must be designed to change that – and what role loss of control and trust play.
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Weiterlesen: Where is the New Economy? An Attempt at a Progress Report
Where is the New Economy? An Attempt at a Progress Report
Since the collapse of market-liberal dogma nearly 20 years ago, innovative thinkers have been searching for more appropriate answers to the problems of our time. In the meantime, a consensus on goals and principles has grown—despite the defensive struggles of resurgent market radicals and ordoliberal nostalgics.
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Weiterlesen: untitled post 829
When it comes to those contributing to the ideas of a New Economy, there is a whole range of researchers who have been working on this for one, two, or more decades. These include Harvard economist Dani Rodrik, who was already criticizing the market-liberal approach to globalization in the 1990s. They also include Thomas Piketty,…
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Weiterlesen: How the Reality Check came about
How the Reality Check came about
What drives people to vote for populists and authoritarians? Is it not enough to look at the election posters: migrants out, elites gone? Not necessarily. Populists would not be populists if they did not know how to channel and steer fears. Why do some respond to this more than others? And why are populists consistently…
