economic suicide manual - unter gelächter
AFTER two months of political horse-trading, Germany’s new governing coalition unveiled its programme for government last Friday. Since Germany is the largest economy in Europe and the third-largest in the world, this was an event of considerable importance. Yet the economic ideas behind this programme, which are very unusual, to put it mildly, have inspired surprisingly little debate.
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The new German Government is launching one of the boldest experiments ever undertaken in the history of economics — or rather anti-economics. ...
Germany’s plan to cure its self-confessed economic failure by doing exactly the opposite to what modern economics would suggest is certainly a bold and novel idea. Jim O’Neill, the chief international economist of Goldman Sachs, remarked on television last week that German politicians are acting as if they had never seen an economics textbook, much less understood one.
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Weiter in der TIMES (vom 14.11.05) - Übersetzung hier
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The new German Government is launching one of the boldest experiments ever undertaken in the history of economics — or rather anti-economics. ...
Germany’s plan to cure its self-confessed economic failure by doing exactly the opposite to what modern economics would suggest is certainly a bold and novel idea. Jim O’Neill, the chief international economist of Goldman Sachs, remarked on television last week that German politicians are acting as if they had never seen an economics textbook, much less understood one.
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Weiter in der TIMES (vom 14.11.05) - Übersetzung hier
gebattmer - 2005/11/23 00:31
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