tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62074338464575874482024-03-13T17:58:37.343+00:00History and EconomicsAre we learning from the past?Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-21532671407993623412015-07-21T18:03:00.003+01:002015-07-21T18:03:48.929+01:00Wolfgang Schäuble reads the wrong history books<span style="color: #424242;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">I wrote a piece in <a href="http://www.wiwo.de/politik/deutschland/schuldenkrise-wolfgang-schaeuble-lernt-aus-dem-falschen-geschichtsbuch/12072772.html" target="_blank">Wirtschaftswoche</a> about the ways in which distorted views about American economic history provide the blueprint for disaster in the Euro crisis. In particular Hans-Werner Sinn's narrative of the USA as a 'no transfer' currency zone is doing real damage. The article is in German:</span></span><div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Finanzminister Wolfgang Schäuble lehnt Transfers nach Südeuropa ab. Soweit es innerhalb eines Währungsraums Regionen mit unterschiedlicher ökonomischer Entwicklung gibt, sind Transfers aber – das lehrt die Geschichte – ökonomisch unvermeidlich. <a href="http://www.wiwo.de/politik/deutschland/schuldenkrise-wolfgang-schaeuble-lernt-aus-dem-falschen-geschichtsbuch/12072772.html" target="_blank">Ganzer Text in der Wirtschaftswoche.</a></span></span></div>
Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-15340726459554153792015-07-16T15:00:00.001+01:002015-07-16T15:00:20.292+01:00Radio interviewabout Greece on <a href="http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/grexit-auf-zeit-eine-sehr-negative-idee.694.de.html?dram:article_id=325202" target="_blank">Deutschlandfunk</a> (in German).Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-21547474430866614912015-06-30T11:55:00.000+01:002015-06-30T11:57:59.434+01:00Interview on Swiss TV (in Italian)Scroll down and click on '<a href="http://www.rsi.ch/la1/programmi/informazione/telegiornale/Telegiornale-5570647.html" target="_blank">Grexit non conviene a nessuno</a>'.Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-89208974584162428482015-06-04T11:14:00.004+01:002015-06-04T11:14:46.153+01:00A Grexit may be plausible from an economic perspective, but politically it would be a disasterMy take on the risks associated with a Grexit at the <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2015/06/02/a-grexit-may-be-plausible-from-an-economic-perspective-but-politically-it-would-be-a-disaster/" target="_blank">LSE's European Politics and Policies Blog</a>. With a very old photo.Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-31440464810985267972015-06-04T11:11:00.002+01:002015-06-04T11:11:22.822+01:00How austerity won the UK elections, and what this means for LabourMy comment on the UK elections in the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/prof-dr-florian-schui/uk-economy_b_7439674.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a>.Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-32818064005674646272015-05-19T13:08:00.004+01:002015-05-19T13:08:50.057+01:00Interview on 'The Street'Yesterday, I talked about the Greek crisis on American TV station 'The Street'. See the interview <a href="http://www.thestreet.com/video/13155202/greece-in-a-make-or-break-period-regarding-its-debt-payments.html" target="_blank">here</a>.Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-16345032850296887692015-03-22T21:49:00.001+00:002015-03-23T08:00:43.098+00:00CNBC interviewTomorrow morning at 7 CET I'll be on CNBC to talk about Tsipras's visit to Berlin.<br />
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Update: <a href="http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000363801" target="_blank">here</a> is the video.Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-32624945822842929092015-03-22T21:47:00.002+00:002015-03-22T21:47:37.886+00:00Give Greece a chance<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Greece's Alexis Tsipras has embarked on a European tour to win support for his economic agenda. European leaders should engage constructively with his proposals. There are many good economic arguments for Tsipras plans but the main reason to make concessions to Greece is a lesson from the politics of the Great Depression. When the Great Depression hit the industrialised world in the late 1920s a series of dramatic economic policy misjudgments made the crisis worse. However, the fact that economic troubles let to political collapse in Germany but not in other countries was more to do with politics than with economics...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Read the full piece in the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/prof-dr-florian-schui/greece-economy_b_6900302.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a>. </span>Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-87827148950405998932015-03-13T09:03:00.002+00:002015-03-13T09:03:41.217+00:00Does Tsipras have a better plan for Europe than Merkel?Of course he does. And better than the plans of Hollande, Renzi, Miliband et al. I explain why in the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/prof-dr-florian-schui/alexis-tsipras-greece-economy_b_6816094.html" target="_blank">Huffington Post</a>.Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-18472805241985375822015-02-13T09:43:00.000+00:002015-02-13T09:43:07.677+00:00Austerity is bad for business. End it now.
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'Most advocates of austerity policies claim to be
“pro-business” but the results of tight fiscal policy have damaged the
prospects of companies across Europe. Below, Florian Schui argues that it is time
for politicians to learn pragmatism from successful business leaders and ditch
a policy that does not work.'<br />
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Read the full piece in <a href="http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=4089" target="_blank">The World Financial Review</a>.Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-50890250036634687892015-02-12T11:13:00.003+00:002015-02-12T11:13:41.005+00:00Radio interviewand listener phone in on Austrian station Ö1. Listen <a href="http://oe1.orf.at/programm/396741" target="_blank">here</a>. (In German.)Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-51205395957922136122015-02-09T10:55:00.001+00:002015-02-09T10:55:48.664+00:00TV interview on 3SatThe TV interview from Austrian station ORF has been rebroadcasted on the show 'Kulturzeit' on 3Sat (a German/Swiss/Austrian channel). Watch it <a href="http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=49187" target="_blank">here</a>. Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-45837593985085081572015-02-02T11:44:00.002+00:002015-02-02T11:44:24.703+00:00Phone-in on 11 FebruaryWorried about austerity? Observing signs of Euro fatigue? Having trouble coping with fiscal contraction? Call the doctor. Preferably on 11 February from 14h05. That's when I will answer listener questions on Austrian radio show "Von Tag zu Tag" on Ö1. Details <a href="http://oe1.orf.at/vontagzutag" target="_blank">here</a>.Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-5785636359012776012015-02-02T11:16:00.002+00:002015-02-02T11:16:26.895+00:00Delayed...The interview on Austrian TV show 'Kulturmontag' was on this Monday. You can watch it <a href="http://tvthek.orf.at/program/Kulturmontag/1303/Kulturmontag/9155126/Spare-Froh-Die-Ideologie-des-Vorsorgens/9155133" target="_blank">here</a>. It was delayed from the original date because of the attacks in Paris.Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-4790608055950352462015-01-09T15:47:00.001+00:002015-01-09T15:47:48.740+00:00TV interviewabout austerity policies, the future of consumption and the Euro crisis on Austrian television show 'Kulturmontag'. It's on ORF 2 on Monday 12 Jan at 22h30. Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-11680604206456821482015-01-09T14:13:00.000+00:002015-01-09T14:13:04.679+00:00 Radio interviewabout austerity, the Euro crisis and my book. On Austrian radio station OE1. Listen <a href="http://oe1.orf.at/programm/394026">here</a> (in German).Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-28485329867685647962014-12-22T10:23:00.005+00:002014-12-22T10:23:59.458+00:00Nordwest radioOn Friday morning I did a short interview about the EU's new investment program on <a href="http://www.radiobremen.de/nordwestradio/index166.html#">Nordwest Radio</a>. Sadly no recording available. The points that I tried to make were (1) 'too little, too late' and (2) what is needed is a big stimulus program in Germany. That would get the European economy going and by pushing up wages in Germany would help to close the gap in competitiveness between European economies. Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-12204718934769188912014-12-22T10:17:00.000+00:002014-12-22T10:17:10.832+00:00Joint reviewof the German editions of Mark Blyth's excellent austerity book of my own 'Austerität. Die Politik der Sparsamkeit: Die kurze Geschichte eines großen Fehlers'. There are also some snippets of an interview that we did at the Frankfurt book fair. Transcript and audio <a href="http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/oekonomie-politik-des-sparens.1310.de.html?dram:article_id=306364">here</a>.Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-31865722414590125082014-12-02T10:51:00.000+00:002014-12-06T12:23:57.305+00:00Two types of German economistsRecently Wolfgang Münchau wrote in the <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e257ed96-6b2c-11e4-be68-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz3KjkMbLev">FT</a> that there are two types of German economists: 'those that have not read Keynes and those that have not understood Keynes.' True as this may be there clearly is increasing interest in the German public to hear criticism of austerity. <a href="http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/wirtschaftshistoriker-sparpolitik-hat-verheerende-folgen.694.de.html?dram:article_id=304794">Here</a> is me talking about 'what's wrong with saving' on German radio station Deutschlandfunk.<br />
<br />Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-32337734885482997632014-10-24T12:47:00.001+01:002014-10-24T12:47:32.433+01:00Predictably futilehave been my attempts to convince a German economist that excessive saving may be an economic problem. <a href="http://www.wiwo.de/politik/europa/streitgespraech-ueber-europas-krisenpolitik-europa-hat-nicht-zu-viel-gespart-sondern-zu-wenig/10862706.html">Read</a> the transcript in German magazine Wirtschaftswoche (in German).<br />
<br />Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-42353110310693576092014-10-09T09:46:00.001+01:002014-10-09T09:46:12.962+01:00Austerität - Politik der Sparsamkeit: Die kurze Geschichte eines großen FehlersThe German edition of "Austerity the great failure" will be launched at Frankfurt Bookfair this week-end. There will be a discussion about the book with Ralf Stegner, vice president of SPD. It's at the fair at<br />
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Vorwärts Stand on Sat 11 Oct at 13h30.<br />
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Details about the event are <a href="http://www.vorwaerts.de/artikel/zeichen-stehen-buch">here</a> and about the book <a href="http://www.randomhouse.de/Buch/Austeritaet-Politik-der-Sparsamkeit-Die-kurze-Geschichte-eines-grossen-Fehlers/Florian-Schui/e462856.rhd">here</a>.Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-30511288230144482532014-10-09T09:32:00.000+01:002014-10-09T09:46:27.931+01:00Heartland of austerity?Angela Merkel is sometimes accused of belonging to the 'Swabian house wife' school of economics. (For readers not familiar with regional stereotyping in Germany: Swabians are often depicted as excessively frugal.). However, it seems that real Swabians are a lot more open to critical perspectives on frugality. Local SWR radio did this <a href="http://www.swr.de/swr2/kultur-info/kulturthema/neues-buch-von-florian-schui/-/id=10016988/nid=10016988/did=14296820/r0vbo3/index.html">review cum interview</a> of the German edition of Austerity. Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-47216633066393924932014-08-05T11:44:00.003+01:002014-09-13T13:48:59.377+01:00The good consumer<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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My thoughts on the answer are <a href="http://aeon.co/magazine/world-views/higher-consumption-is-the-key-to-a-fair-society/">here</a> in an article for Aeon Magazine.</div>
<!--EndFragment-->Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-46821933584332268942014-07-08T18:10:00.003+01:002014-07-08T18:10:57.100+01:00Radio interview about European austerityAn interview with German radio station Deutschlandfunk. Listen <a href="http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/streit-um-austeritaetspolitik-in-der-krise-sind-die.694.de.html?dram:article_id=291006">here</a> (in German).Florian Schuihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05915482443883304487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6207433846457587448.post-59215755497888759932014-07-08T18:07:00.001+01:002014-09-13T13:44:49.890+01:00European austerity was a failure but what comes next may be even worse<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #383838; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26.3999996185303px; margin-bottom: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I wrote a short opinion piece about Renzi and the plans to soften the austerity measures imposed on the European crisis countries. Read it <a href="http://theconversation.com/european-austerity-was-a-failure-but-what-comes-next-may-be-even-worse-28690">here</a>. </span></div>
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