Heiner Flassbeck
Heiner Flassbeck is an Economics Professor (Hamburg University), former Deputy Minister of Finance of Germany (1998-1999), and the former Director of Globalisation Strategies for the United National Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD, 2003-2012). Flassbeck has also worked as Chief Macroeconomist at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), and member of the staff of the German Council of Economic Experts. In 2016 he founded the Makroskop consultancy for global macroeconomics.
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Who’s afraid of China?
Berlin (Brussels Morning) Sinophobia is a widespread political disease. Beyond China, industrialised countries are also pursuing an unjustifiably…
Climate change politics lack economic rationale
The coronavirus pandemic is a setback for the environmental movement as it shows how governments can disrupting economic…
Turkey and the mirage of monetary sovereignty
Turkey has fallen into a traditional carry-trade trap that is destabilising its currency; the structural solution to the…
Switzerland is a currency manipulator, but what do you do about it?
Berlin (Brussels Morning) There is no doubt that Switzerland is a currency manipulator; whether its behaviour is wrong…
The great advantage of the European Monetary Union
Berlin (Brussels Morning) Many German economists still blame the European Central Bank (ECB) for doing what central banks…