Hamburg roll call
The Hamburg appeal is a public appeal for economic reforms in Germany , signed by 243 economists shortly before the 2005 Bundestag election . The appeal was brought to the general public through a series of advertisements by the Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft (INSM), in which the Hamburg appeal was quoted in part.
Emergence
The Hamburg appeal was initiated in the early summer of 2005 by professors Michael Funke , Bernd Lucke and Thomas Straubhaar , who work at the University of Hamburg , and published on June 30, 2005 in the daily newspaper Die Welt . This was preceded by statements from leading representatives of the federal government who called for wage increases to increase overall economic demand.
Content
In the appeal, fiscal spending programs are classified as fundamentally unsuitable. Overall economic demand is "an important and complexly structured economic variable that largely eludes sustainable control". Therefore, "a responsible financial policy must be strictly stability-oriented". Specifically, it was demanded, among other things, that the low-wage earner should earn less and that social assistance should increasingly switch from wage replacement benefits to wage subsidies.
reception
Thomas Apolte , one of the signatories of the Hamburg appeal, noted a change of opinion in 2009: According to him, the majority of economists consider massive deficit spending to be necessary in view of the global economic crisis from 2007 onwards . In 2005, the majority of economists signed the Hamburg appeal, which was largely ignored by the public, in which fiscal spending programs were classified not only for the situation at the time, but as fundamentally unsuitable.
Web links
- Series of advertisements from the Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft (2MB) ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- Commentary on the Hamburg appeal by Ekkehart Schlicht, Frankfurter Rundschau, August 31, 2005, p. 12
Individual evidence
- ^ Text of the Hamburg Appeal ( Memento from February 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Signatories of the Hamburg appeal - PDF. Retrieved February 21, 2018 .
- ↑ Lobby control , Christiansen-Schaubühne complete (PDF; 547 kB), September 7, 2006, page 11; Walter Ötsch: Computer Worlds and Market Discourse. In: Ötsch / Thomasberger (ed.): The neoliberal market discourse: origins, history, effects, Marburg, Metropolis, 2009, pp. 125–150, here: p. 140.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Spiegel Online Opposition rejects demands for higher wages
- ↑ a b Thomas Apolte: Are we all Keynesians now? (PDF; 72 kB) in: WiSt Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 113, March 2009
- ↑ “The unpleasant truth is therefore that an improvement in the labor market situation will only be possible through lower wages for those who are already on low wages, that is, through a wider wage spread. [...] Compensation for the low-wage earner through the welfare state is possible to a certain extent. But for this to happen, social policy must switch from wage replacement benefits to wage subsidies. The German system of wage replacement benefits, from social assistance to unemployment benefits and subsidized early retirement, creates wage claims that the market can no longer satisfy. "
