Schuld und Schulden mit Prof. Joseph Vogl

In this keynote lecture during the conference „The Spectre of Stagnation? Europe in the World Economy“, Till van Treek presents research on how changes in income distribution lead to macroeconomic instability and crisis, focusing on currents accounts. Treek presents the relative income hypothesis in contrast to other mainstream and Post-Keynesian explanations. The relative income hypothesis proposes that aggregate demand increases and savings decrease with rising personal income inequality due to upward looking status comparison – but effects depend on the quantile where income inequality increases. Treek points to the importance of accounting for both income and functional income distribution and underlines his arguments with data comparing different pattern in Germany and the U.S.

This is an introductory lecture to Stock-Flow Consistent (SFC) modelling. Antoine Godin presents this family of macroeconomic models, which is based on a rigorous accounting framework and guarantees a correct and comprehensive integration of all the flows and the stocks of an economy. SFC models focus especially on interactions between …

Comment verdir la politique monétaire ? Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran nous propose tour d’horizon des options possibles pour verdir la politique monétaire, en faisant de la soutenabilité environnementale un objectif à part entière de la Banque centrale européenne.

Anwar Shaikh explores alternative economic explanations, emphasizing 'real competition' theory and the role of imperfections in economic patterns.