How We Get What We Value

Departing from an analysis of women's employment and changing gender regimes in the pre crisis period, Jill Rubery illustrates how the crisis affects men's and women's employment differently. Afterwards, she discusses the crisis' impact on gender relations. Based on empirical findings, she shows how men were more affected by the recession and women more by austerity and presents possible explanations. Those are furthermore linked to women's employment decisions and prevalent gender regimes. In particular, Rubery discusses cut backs in public spendings on care, flexibilization and the role of conservative gender ideologies.

Teil 1: Adam Smith und der freie Markt Woher kommt der Kapitalismus? Ist er eine natürliche Folge der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung? Oder resultiert er aus Theorien, die im Laufe des politischen und technologischen Wandels entstanden sind? Die Serie "Der Kapitalismus" begibt sich weltweit auf die Suche nach Antworten und schreckt nicht davor zurück, alte Idole zu stürzen und Vorurteile auszuräumen. In sechs Folgen werden Menschen aus 22 Ländern befragt, darunter Jäger aus dem Amazonas-Gebiet, die letzten Kommunisten Chinas und Börsenmakler aus New York. Wie sieht die Welt nach der Krise 2008 aus? Mehr als 20 renommierte Wirtschafts-Experten versuchen das herauszufinden und begeben sich auf den Spuren der großen Denker, die die Geschichte des Kapitalismus geprägt haben.

In this piece Alexander Kravchuk gives an overview over the history of dept dependency in Ukraine, highlighting especially the role of international creditors and the negative socio-economic impacts of debt dependency for the Ukrainian economy.

This paper presents an overview of different models which explain financial crises, with the aim of understanding economic developments during and possibly after the Great Recession. In the first part approaches based on efficient markets and rational expectations hypotheses are analyzed, which however do not give any explanation for the occurrence of financial crises and thus cannot suggest any remedies for the present situation. A broad range of theoretical approaches analyzing financial crises from a medium term perspective is then discussed. Within this group we focused on the insights of Marx, Schumpeter, Wicksell, Hayek, Fisher, Keynes, Minsky, and Kindleberger. Subsequently the contributions of the Regulation School, the approach of Social Structures of Accumulation and Post-Keynesian approach, which focus on long-term developments and regime shifts in capitalist development, are presented. International approaches to finance and financial crises are integrated into the analyses. We address the issue of relevance of all these theories for the present crisis and draw some policy implications. The paper has the aim to find out to which extent the different approaches are able to explain the Great Recession, what visions they develop about future development of capitalism and to which extent these different approaches can be synthesized.

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