Heiner Flassbeck – författare

On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance-not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and austerity and the neoliberal agenda is being challenged. Suddenly it seems as if there is an alternative. But what?The Eurozone is in a deep and prolonged crisis. It is now clear that monetary union is a historic failure, beyond repair-and certainly not in the interests of Europe's working people.Building on the economic analysis of two of Europe's leading thinkers, Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas (a candidate standing for election on Syriza's list), Against the Troika is the first book to propose a strategic left-wing plan for how peripheral countries could exit the euro. With a change in government in Greece, and looming political transformations in countries such as Spain, this major intervention lays out a radical, anti-capitalist programme at a critical juncture for Europe. The final three chapters offer a detailed postmortem of the Greek catastrophe, explain what can be learned from it-and provide a possible alternative.Against the Troika is a practical blueprint for real change in a continent wracked by crisis and austerity.

By introducing a new national currency in November 1993, the Republic of Kazakstan took a decisive step towards establishing its political and economic independence. In the following years, Kazakstan made great efforts to lay the institutional foundation for econonmic policy in line with a free market system. The cooperation between Kazak experts and independent international advisors such as the group of German econonmists under the leadership of Lutz Hoffmann played an important role for the Kazak government in choosing the most effective concepts and instruments for economic policy. Thus, the main topic of this book is the discussion of the macroeconomic problems during the first years of transition and the role of international financial institutions, in particular the International Monetary Fund.The topics are dealt with in a new form of presentation, collecting the papers of the advisory group in chronological order.

Avregleringar och liberaliseringar skulle frigöra kapitalets skapande kraft. Istället sveper den djupaste ekonomiska krisen sedan 30-talet fram över världen. Euforin över de fria marknadskrafternas självreglerande förmåga har lagt sig, men vad är det som händer? Pengarnas frihet innehåller texter som visar att finanskrisen varken handlar om en ren penningkris eller ett moraliskt misslyckande, utan om en djupgående kris för kapitalismen.