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Mathis Heinrich: The ECB and the Crises of the Eurozone
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Georgi Medarov: Landgrabbing and Economic Liberalization in Postsocialist Bulgaria
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Jan Torporowski: Keynes and Kalecki on the Dilemmas of Mr. Corbyn
The Polish economist Michał Kalecki (1899-1970) died some 45 years ago, unfortunately before he could reveal his thoughts on current developments in the Labour Party. He was famous for his refusal to join any political party, More
Setting the Mood for our Debate
Crises are results of increased problems, contradictions, and dysfunctionalities. They offer possibilities to moderate, to tackle and to solve such problems, contradictions, and dysfunctionalities. All the different stakeholders, as they exist, are challenged to react to the accumulated problems, More
Klaus Dörre: Can (continental European) Capitalism be Overcome?
When posed in this way, my answer to the question is still a resounding ‘yes!’. What is true for all other capitalisms also applies to continental European capitalism: because it can no longer be sustained by our planet, and because increasing inequality More
Kees van der Pijl: Democratic Capitalism in the Last Stages? Capital as Agency in Wolfgang Streeck’s Analysis of the Crisis
Wolfgang Streeck’s Gekaufte Zeit/ Buying Time contains a compelling analysis that points to the origins of the current crisis in the wave of strikes of 1968-69. It caused the capitalist class to try and wrest free from the post-war social (-democratic) contract forced on it by labour. More
Zakhar Popovych: Answers on the Workshop Questions
As Olexandr Kravchuk pointed Ukrainian oligarchic capitalism was not that much better before the 2008-2009 crises. Ukrainian economy was programmed for destruction More
Joachim Spangenberg: Answers to the Workshop Questions
There have been several distinct phases. (1.1) In the beginning, there was general irritation how something so unpredicted could happen; even hard core economists were full of doubt. More
Alexander Kravchuk: Stocktaking Ukrainian Development. Scenarios of Ukrainian Development
To answer for the first question «what has changed for us after the crisis of 2007-2008» we need for a briefly characterizing Ukraine development until 2008. After predatory privatization of state property, which was estimated at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Ukraine in the hundreds of billions US dollars, More