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Lecture: Functional constructions of human population

Lecture by Katrin Hirte at the Charité Conference "Human Population as a Factor of Crisis - Historical Reflections"

Thielallee 71 | 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
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Jakob Kapeller in an interview about property taxes

"No employer would think: I am dismantling my factory hall and shift it to Hungary, because there taxation is 0.5 percent lower."

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Do we need property taxes?

Property taxes are particularly low in Austria. Is it time to change that? Article in the magazine " Moment" with Jakob Kapeller.

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Germany is affected by "nonsense output gaps"

In the eurozone, fiscal policy decisions are based on a problematic model. Philipp Heimberger and Jakob Kapeller show how.

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Fight the economics downturn

Comment in the newspaper "Standard" by Philipp Heimberger and Atanas Pekanov. It discusses this key challenge of the next Austrian Government.

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EU Commission responds to criticism of output gap nonsense

Philipp Heimberger and other economists criticized the calculation method for the growth potential of EU countries. The Commission responds.

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How much money would wealth taxes bring?

The blog "Kontrast" refers to a model calculation of ICAE. It treats several options and also incorporates capital flight.

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The top one percent owns 40.5% of the assets

The blog "Kontrast" reports on wealth. And refers to studies from the ICAE on wealth concentration in Austria by Kapeller, Ferschli, Schütz &…

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Blog article: Combating the economic downturn

Unemployment threatens to rise again in Austria. What role can expansive fiscal policy play?