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Heiner Flassbeck: Germany, surrounded by evil mercantilists

July 20, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

The German current account surplus of probably 7 per cent of GDP in the current year is an unparalleled scandal. However, it becomes a real political catastrophe when Germany accuses countries that have fairly balanced […]

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Heiner Flassbeck: Greens down, this is an opportunity for reasonable and globally orientated climate policy

June 14, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Greens have crashed brutally in the European elections. In Germany, their share of the vote has almost halved and in France, at 5 per cent, it has even fallen to almost a third of […]

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Heiner Flassbeck: Don’t mess with the international financial markets

March 31, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

There are unwritten laws that everyone who has to deal with them knows, but nobody talks about them openly because any attempt to bring them out into the open is punished by the community with […]

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Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker: Searching for the scapegoat – wages in the ECB’s focus

March 15, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

If the German Federal Statistical Office hadn’t officially announced it last Friday, you wouldn’t have believed it. In Germany, the part of collective wage agreements that leads to a permanent collective wage increase actually amounted […]

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Heiner Flassbeck: It is high time for Germany to understand the market economy

February 24, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Germany is proud of its market economy. Some call the German economic system a “social market economy”, believing that the market economy is inherently social because it helps to improve living conditions for everyone. The […]

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Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – Germany: Downturn in the economy and a simultaneous downturn in economic analysis

February 15, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is not an economic expert. Nobody expects him to be. However, the head of government of the world’s fourth largest industrialised nation should have advisors to protect him from disqualifying himself […]

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Heiner Flassbeck, Patrick Kaczmarczyk: Argentina and Turkey: Two very different countries, the same problem

February 8, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

In this article, we want to ask the simple question of how Argentina’s central problem, extremely high inflation, is to be tackled by the “markets”. Thereby, we use the contrasting example of Turkey, which is […]

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Heiner Flassbeck: Argentina’s plan: nonsense remains nonsense, even if the IMF and “experts” support it

January 21, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

You can’t be radical enough if you are only liberal or libertarian. In a society that shies away from any kind of radicalism, radical liberalism is at least secretly admired. Argentina’s new president, who many […]

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Heiner Flassbeck – Germany: Speechlessness is not politics – reflections at the turn of the year

January 12, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

A good review of the current situation in Germany. Short and to the point. Read HERE

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Heiner Flassbeck – The great illusion: COP 28 and the end of fossil fuels

December 18, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

After all, eight years after the Paris Agreement, most of the world has now realised that there is a problem with fossil fuel producers. The conference known as COP 28, which has just ended in […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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