Brigitte Young- Doctor of Philosophy
- University of Münster
Brigitte Young
- Doctor of Philosophy
- University of Münster
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After the Great Recession and the Covid Crisis the sovereign debt sustainability has again become a major public policy issue. Since the Great Recession Olivier Blanchard (2019) has put forward the theory of a “good and bad” debt equilibrium. The good debt equilibrium is usually supported by high economic growth rates, low risk premia, and lower in...
While a large body of literature examines the impact of quantitative easing (QE) on the financial sector and discusses the thereby adjusted roles and mandates of central banks, distributional impacts of QE had been hardly reflected. This paper critically analyses the current state of understanding of distributional impacts of QE in the course of th...
While a large body of literature examines the impact of quantitative easing (QE) on the financial sector and discusses the thereby adjusted roles and mandates of central banks, distributional impacts of QE had been hardly reflected. This paper critically analyses the current state of understanding of distributional impacts of QE in the course of th...
The paper intervenes in the debate on macroeconomics, money, gender, and financialization. Generally, there is an omission in gender studies on gender-specific effects of monetary policy. Not only is there a blind-spot about the role of monetary policy in feminist political economy, there is equally a blind-spot in meso-level analysis which focus o...
Unconventional monetary policy was implemented as a result of the financial crisis and resulted in rising asset prices in the stock markets. While the increase in asset prices is not exclusively triggered by unconventional monetary policy, central bankers accept that unconventional monetary policy has resulted in distributional effects on wealth, a...
Untergangsszenarien über den Fortbestand des Euros und der Europäischen Union sind seit dem Brexit zum Volkssport der Euroskeptiker und Eurogegner geworden. Natürlich können die endogenen und exogenen Herausforderungen für die Europäische Union und die Eurozone nicht geleugnet werden. Aber gerade diese Ungewissheit in Zeiten unübersichtlicher sozia...
The intent of the paper is to analyze two narratives about the remarkable turn-around of Germany in the 1990s as sick man of Europe to today’s most successful economy in the EU. Ordoliberalism is used by German policy makers and elites to account for the economic success story without taking into account the Euro currency regime which has overwhelm...
The purpose of this Special Issue is to shed light on to the theoretical thicket of the ideational origin and narrative of German ordoliberalism and ask whether the ideas of ordoliberalism function as a coherent repertoire or blueprint for Eurozone crisis management. It may have been unintended by German political actors, but the ideas of ordoliber...
Der Begriff der Finanzialisierung wird verwendet, um den Bedeutungszuwachs der institutionellen Strukturen der globalen Finanzmärkte – einschließlich neuerer Akteure wie Investment- und Pensionsfonds und der gestiegenen Attraktivität von Anlagen – sowie eine hermetische Finanzkultur, die durch ein logisches, mathematisches und abstraktes Denken der...
German political leaders have extolled the advantages of the rule-based ordoliberal doctrine as a panacea for the Eurozone countries to regain competitiveness. This legalistic doctrine has been used by the German Bundesbank as an important agenda setter to prevent alternative ideas from challenging the austerity discourse in the Eurozone. A closer...
It is one of the great misnomers to call the present Eurozone debt crisis a sovereign debt crisis. The reality is that the European sovereign debt crisis started when the debt of the private banking sector was transformed into public sector debt via bail-outs. Blythe and Newmann refer to this discursive shift as the ‘greatest swindle of modern time...
Es ist ein Paradox der ökonomischen Ideengeschichte, dass just der Begriff Neoliberalismus und der damit verbundene deutsche Ordoliberalismus, der in den 1930er Jahren gegen den Laissez-faire-Liberalismus des 19. Jahrhunderts in Paris kreiert wurde, in Zeiten der Globalisierung mit den Ideen des Laissez-faire-Liberalismus (und später mit der Chicag...
Die G20-Gipfelbeschlüsse unterscheiden sich zwischen der ersten Phase von 2008 bis Toronto 2010 und der Phase nach Toronto. Der erste Abschnitt war geprägt vom Schock und der Befürchtung, dass nach dem Zusammenbruch von Lehman Brothers die Finanzmärkte implodieren und eine weltweite Wirtschaftsdepression auslösen könnten. Die zunehmende Stabilisier...
A historian and a political scientist take issue with Bonefeld's interpretation of ordoliberalism from the viewpoint of our historical knowledge of the Freiburg School. Our major disagreement is with Bonefeld's underlying assumption that the ideas of the Freiburgers on strong state authority were very durable and continued to be so across a divide...
Only a decade ago, slow growth and high unemployment plagued Germany, but the "sick man of Europe" has now moved to outperform the Eurozone average growth since the second quarter of 2010. This confirms Germany's recovery and its status as the growth engine of the continent. This surely is a success story. While Germany (also Austria and the Nether...
„Frieden durch Handel“ ist seit den 1940er Jahren die bestimmende Grundlage für die Gestaltung des Welthandelssystems. Insbesondere
in den USA wurde zu dieser Zeit der Gedanke populär, dass durch die Förderung freien und gerechten Handels eine tragfähige
Basis für die friedliche und sichere Entwicklung der Welt gelegt werden könne, da „durch zunehm...
Subprime lending has become the penultimate case study for critics of the recent period of financialization, or neo-liberalism more broadly, b ecause it exposes the most profligate tendencies of predatory lending and the pernicious social costs visited on society's most vulnerable groups. This article builds on the socia l stratification and wealth...
Die globale Finanzkrise hat ihren Ursprung im US-amerikanischen Subprimebankensektor und löste eine weltweite Kreditkrise
aus, die die globale Realwirtschaft mit unvorhergesehener Wucht in ihren Bann zog. Die Ursachen für die Subprime Krise werden
in einer Bandbreite von Faktoren diagnostiziert: Angefangen mit dem Versagen der Manager im Bankensekt...
This chapter concerns the place of poor developing countries in the financial architecture and ‘microlending’ as a potential means for alleviating poverty. It critically examines the exponential rise of microfinance institutions (MFIs) and asks why they have become so central within strategies to combat poverty around the globe. Poverty alleviation...
The current meltdown of the financial markets in the United States, which triggered worldwide financial crisis and staggering declines in global growth rates, challenges the assumptions of fast capital market liberalization (CML). Whereas the discussion in previous years has concentrated on the benefits of financial market liberalization, the focus...
The East German uprising of 1989 was not a male revolution. Indeed, one of the most significant aspects of the fall of East Germany, compared to that of other East European nations, was the presence of women demanding a political role in the newly emerging social order. As one slogan proclaimed, "Without Women There Is No State.". Yet despite the d...
Der Begriff „Globalisierung“ wird seit einigen Jahren kontrovers diskutiert. Einerseits wird Globalisierung als unausweichlicher
Sachzwang des Weltmarkts bewertet, der dazu führt, dass sich der nationale Wohlstand sowohl in reichen als auch armen Ländern
erhöht. Andererseits wird argumentiert, die Globalisierung sei nur ein Mythos oder eine Ideolog...
Der Begriff „Globalisierung“ wird seit einigen Jahren kontrovers diskutiert. Einerseits wird Globalisierung als unausweichlicher
Sachzwang des Weltmarkts bewertet, der dazu führt, dass sich der nationale Wohlstand sowohl in reichen als auch armen Ländern
erhöht. Andererseits wird argumentiert, die Globalisierung sei nur ein Mythos oder eine Ideolog...
The recent financial market instability in the US, and its world wide spill-over into regional and local financial markets
with its devastating impact on the real side of the economy in both industrial and developing countries, has shifted the discourse
from the benefits of financial liberalization to the costs of fast and excessive financial liber...
Ein Lösungsansatz für die derzeitige Finanz- und Bankenkrise kann nur durch ein Umdenken und eine Umorientierung in der Gestaltung der Finanzmärkte durch eine globale multilaterale Koordination erfolgen. Finanzkrisen betreffen uns nämlich alle unterschiedslos, aber sie treffen die mit dem geringsten Vermögen härter als diejenigen, welche über priva...
This paper addresses issues that are involved in the financial market liberalization and transatlantic regulation. Whereas the discussion in previous years has concentrated on the benefits of the financial market liberalization for both sides of the Atlantic, due to recent credit and financial market crises, the cost of fast and excessive financial...
Die Intention des vorliegenden Aufsatzes ist es, anhand des ideellen Institutionalismus die Popularität der Mikrofinanzprogramme seit den 1990er Jahren zu erklären. Während sich die Fachliteratur in zwei stark polarisierende Lager teilt, die einerseits von einem Win-win Szenario ausgeht und andererseits auf einer Kapitalismuskritik basiert, versuch...
Der im Juli 2004 verÖffentliche UNDP Human Development Report 2004 kommt zu der erschütternden Bilanz, dass in vielen Teilen
der Welt der Lebensstandard heute niedriger ist als im Jahr 1990. Oder anders ausgedrückt, die Not in vielen Ländern ist grÖ\er
als 1990. Nach dem Human Development Index (HDI)1 eines Landes, der die durchschnittliche Lebense...
This article analyses the different ways globalisation affects women, showing clearly that the theoretical as well as empirical analyses of globalisation processes remain insufficient without a gender perspective. Based on the thesis that the transformation of specific historic systems of capitalism goes hand in hand with the reconfiguration of gen...
This article analyses the different ways globalisation affects women, showing clearly that the theoretical as well as empirical analyses of globalisation processes remain insufficient without a gender perspective. Based on the thesis that the transformation of specific historic systems of capitalism goes hand in hand with the reconfiguration of gen...
The authors have convincingly shown the harmfulness for women of the WTO policies, be it the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA), the Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects (TRIMS). All these policies are formulated as gender-neutral, but are in fac...
Die Erfahrungen mit den zwei Pilotseminaren Münster-Zagreb und Münster-M.I.T. haben gezeigt, dass die neuen Medien die Basis für ein grenzüberschreitendes interkulturelles Lernen bieten, eine prozessorientierte Nutzung der Kommunikationstechnologien aber weitreichende Konsequenzen für die Form der Lehre hat. Die beiden Seminare haben sich im Vergle...
“Anti-globalists see the ‘Washington consensus’ as a conspiracy to enrich bankers. They are not entirely wrong.”1
The question addressed in this paper is whether a particular discursive construction of globalization sets the boundaries for what is politically feasible within the EU. To answer this question, the macroeconomic policies of the European Monetary and Economic Union with its rigid emphasis on price stability are analysed in the context of the Nordic...
Globalization has to be understood as an open and contradictory process that entails restructuring the nationally bounded economic system and its Keynesian institutional regulatory structures. More specifically, we are facing a process of de-nationalization of the political and economic spaces that symbolized the preceding period of capitalism, gen...
The attacks on 11th September are – according to the current belief – a turning point in the US-foreign policy. The authors contest this popular view and suggest that a new military policy was already designed in the aftermath of the collaps of the Soviet Union in 1990. Focussing on the Gulf War and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty the authors arg...
This article is an attempt to interpret European employment and equal opportunity policies within the larger context of economic globalisation with its focus on deregulation and political disengagement from the economy. Stephen Gill has called the process of subordinating governments to the logic of market discipline the 'new constitutionalism for...
This article examines the causes of the marginalisation of women in political and economic decision‐making processes that are part of the ‘routine’ policy‐making process of the German state. The larger theoretical question is whether there is a ‘gender bias of the German state’ that has made its institutional structures less amenable to women's par...
The articles starts with a critique of the present feminist state theories and argues that the framework is no longer adequate to comprehend the gendered process of global restructuring. Relying on the insights of the French Regulation School, the author suggests that specific regimes of accumulation generate specific gender regimes and gender orde...
Globalisierung1 heißt das neue Schlagwort am Ende des zweiten Milleniums. Statt der vielversprochenen „neuen Weltordnung“ mit weniger Krieg, mehr Demokratie und allgemeinem Wohlstand herrschen am Ende des Ost-West-Konflikts mehr Krieg, zunehmende Armut auch in den reichen Industrieländern, Schrecken, Flüchtlingselend und existentielle Angst. Das „k...
This article problematizes the much used cliche that Warnen are the main losers of German unification« and suggests that the »disempowerment« of warnen during and after Unification is due to two non-synchronization processes. First, the development of separate East and West German feminist identities has made it difficult for feminists to agree on...
The process of German unification has been a series of political surprises. Before the chain of events of summer and fall 1989 that led to the fall of the Wall on November 9, 1989, few could have predicted the “change of direction” (die Wende) of the government that followed. Fewer still would have suspected how quickly the overthrow of Honecker an...
The process of German unification has been a series of political surprises. Before the chain of events of summer and fall 1989 that led to the fall of the Wall on November 9, 1989, few could have predicted the “change of direction” (die Wende) of the government that followed. Fewer still would have suspected how quickly the overthrow of Honecker an...
The real losers in restructuring the former East German university system are women scholars. Women are not only the first to lose their positions in the process of Abwicklung they are also the last to be considered in the new stage of rebuilding the university system. Thus the politics of Abwicklung, has to be understood as a microcosm of the gend...
Die politikwissenschaftliche Staatsdebatte in der Bundesrepublik weist zwei scheinbar gegenläufige Merkmale auf: Allenthalben ist, nach den Debatten über das Staatsversagen und dem Rückzug des Staates, heute vom,Ende des nationalen Staates‘ die Rede. Gleichzeitig erfährt der wissenschaftliche Diskurs um Staat und Institutionen geradezu eine Renaiss...
Corporatism having become a less useful label for describing entire political systems, corporatist scholars have emphasized the importance of meso-level corporatism, using dairying as the classic example. Analysis of the American dairy industry does not support the claim that there is ‘no corporatism in the United States’ but it suggests why meso-c...
This paper addresses issues that are involved in the financial market liberalization and transatlantic regulation. Whereas the discussion in previous years has concentrated on the benefits of the financial market liberalization for both sides of the Atlantic, due to recent credit and financial market crises, the cost of fast and excessive financial...
The question addressed in this paper is whether a particular discursive construction of globalization sets the boundaries for what is politically feasible within the EU. To answer this question, the macroeconomic policies of the European Monetary and Economic Union with its rigid emphasis on price stability are analysed in the context of the Nordic...
