May 25, 2018
In this Episode of the Podcast we talk about the newly founded Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET) – the Commission has been set up by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and is led by the Nobel Prize laureates in economics Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence. In the talk Prof. Bofinger...
May 16, 2018
We talk about the general tasks of economists, the education program and why the expertise of economists is important for institutions, companies and political decision-makers. One could compare the work of and economist with that of a medical doctor. Whereas the medical doctor examines the health of human beings,...