Strategia Europa 2020 i Europejska Odbudowa

European Recovery and a turn into a “new economy” in Europe are hampered by the Washington Consensus and the large disparities between the Member States. Europe 2020 Strategy neglects both dimensions and continuous to apply the basic principles of economic policy of the Lisbon Strategy. Emerging global multi-polarity need a loosening from the dollar-dominated financial markets and a priority for strengthening the real economy in Europe. Instead of financial help packages the public financial expenditures should be addressed to the seven flagship initiatives of the Europe 2020 Strategy, which can level-off existing economic disparities. For this, the Currency Union needs to be complemented by a fiscal policy going far beyond the stronger economic governance proposed by Europe 2020. Europe has to raise a financial transaction tax and to allocate it by a system of fiscal federalism partly to economically weaker Member States. Installing legally more elements of a “transfer union” would strengthen European competitiveness.Europejska Odbudowa i zwrot w kierunku „nowej ekonomii” w Europie są spowalniane przez Konsensus Waszyngtoński i duże zróżnicowanie rozwojowe pomiędzy krajami UE. Zarysowująca się obecnie globalna wielobiegunowość potrzebuje odejścia od zdominowanych przez dolara rynków finansowych i uznania za priorytet konieczności wzmocnienia w Europie prawdziwej ekonomii. Zamiast doraźnej pomocy finansowej, wydatki publiczne powinny koncentrować się na siedmiu flagowych inicjatywach strategii Europa 2020, które mogą zmniejszyć istniejące ekonomiczne zróżnicowanie pomiędzy poszczególnymi krajami. Aby tak się stało, Unia Walutowa powinna zostać wsparta polityką fiskalną wybiegającą jednak daleko poza ekonomiczne zarządzanie zaproponowane w Europie 2020. Należy wprowadzić podatek od transakcji (financial transaction tax), który byłby częścią systemu fiskalnego federalizmu uwzględniającego potrzeby krajów słabszych ekonomicznie. Prawne umocowanie większej ilości „unii transferów” może zwiększyć europejską konkurencyjność

Economy and Society: Strategies for a More Equal Distribution of Societal Power

Unequal distribution of societal power is to a large extent responsible for poverty, hunger, the destruction of nature, and inhuman living conditions. From the perspective of its redistribution, we distinguish three basic means of power: The ownership of material and immaterial properties, the kind of organisation and the values according to which properties and their organisation are handled. This framework permits us to identify crucial power structures in less industrialised and industrial countries and within the financial, real productive, political and social subsystems of the society and allows us to sketch strategies for redistribution of societal power: Industrial countries have to reduce their real and financial capital inputs in favour of higher human capital investments and increase their direct investments in less industrialised countries, supported by a Global Marshall Plan. Less industrialised countries need to enhance both their industrial and alternative sectors, establish more democratic structures and human-centered educational systems. By these cooperative strategies the costs of former colonialism can be partly refunded. The main obstacle for such global cooperation is the global financial system, which has to be decentralised towards a multi-currency system, including regional currencies and barter. In the real productive sector, financial governance and capital-oriented hierarchies should be markedly reduced, which will increase creativity and productivity of work, underpinned by an enlarged human-centered education. Redistributing the prevailing power of the financial and productive sector rests considerably on democratic governance, which has to include increasing informal and legitimate interests and prevent plutocratic tendencies. For this, an economic democracy should be evolved where each individual not only has a vote, but also a guaranteed minimum income. Individual security, welfare and well-being are the foundations for higher creativity and productivity and ensure for each individual more freedom to organise themselves according to their own values. Extending the increasing individual social power to a large population creates social capital, which will accelerate the transition into a human-centered societal development

Studie ueber die Eigenschaften eines beschaeftigungswirksamen Umweltprogramms fuer die Gemeinschaft. Schlussbericht

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Das HERMES-Modell der Europaeischen Gemeinschaft: Kurzbeschreibung

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Wettbewerbsorientierte Strukturpolitik in der Europaeischen Union

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Environmental-economic modelling at the EC-level: the case of the Federal Republic of Germany

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Mittelstandsvertraeglichkeit der EG-Forschungsfoerderung?

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Deutsche Direktinvestitionen in den modernen Industriebranchen des Irans

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Umweltoekonomie und Umweltpolitik: ein Ueberblick aus sozial-oekonomischer Sicht

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Foerdermassnahmen im Bereich der Telekommunikation

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