WeLT, May 17, 2019, by Daniel Eckert. Deutschland hat einen weiten Weg zurückgelegt. Als das Grundgesetz im Mai vor 70 Jahren ratifiziert wurde, war der künftige wirtschaftliche Erfolg des neuen Staats keineswegs selbstverständlich und absehbar. Nicht zuletzt in den großen Finanzmetropolen London und New York herrschte nach beiden Weltkriegen die...
QUARTZ, February 25, 2019, by Ilaria Maria Sala. Was one of the cruelest ways of making women conform to crazy beauty standards about attractiveness for the marriage market, or was its endurance actually due to economic reasons? A series of recent studies argues that the practice was as much about...
BloombergQuint, March 14, 2019, by Alan Katz. (Bloomberg Businessweek) — The dirty money scandals pouring out of Europe may seem like déjà vu. A crackdown on illicit cash made a big splash in the first half of this decade: HSBC Holdings Plc was fined $1.9 billion in 2012 for handling...
Bloomberg, March 21, 2019, by Tyler Cowen. Real estate may be a better — and safer — investment than I thought. This is my conclusion after reading a comprehensive study published this month titled, “The Total Risk Premium Puzzle.” […] To revisit our previous understanding, it has been widely accepted that equities yield real returns...
Bloomberg, March 22, 2019, by Peter Coy. The best research on differences in black and white Americans’ income and wealth comes from Germany. University of Bonn economists Moritz Kuhn, Moritz Schularick, and Ulrike Steins assembled historical data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances from 1949 to 2016, analyzing income...
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 31. January 2019, by Moritz Schularick. Winston Churchill wird der Satz zugeschrieben, dass dieUSA weltpolitisch immer das Richtige tun, aber erst nachdem sie vorher alle anderen Möglichkeiten ausprobiert haben. Ob er das wirklich so gesagt hat, ist umstritten. Aber es ist zu hoffen, dass das gegenwärtige Hin und Her...
Patheos, December 10, 2018 by Philip Jenkins. The Washington Post recently ran a story with stunning implications for the history of Christian missions. The story suggests that such missions could have very positive “ghost” effects in the long term, even many years after they had officially ended. […] Journalist Andrew...
