Macroscope (magazine)
| MAKROSKOP - magazine for economic policy | |
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| description | Economic policy magazine |
| publishing company | Makroscope Mediengesellschaft mbH (Germany) |
| Headquarters | Wiesbaden |
| First edition | 2016 |
| Editor-in-chief | Paul Steinhardt |
| editor | Dirk Ehnts , Andreas Gehlen, Günter Grzega, Martin Höpner , Andreas Nölke, Lydia Krüger, Hartmut Reiners, Heinrich Röder, Ulrike Simon and Peter Wahl |
| Web link | makroscope.eu |
| ISSN (print) | 2627-5244 |
MAKROSKOP - magazine for economic policy offers "critical analyzes of politics and economics from a post-Keynesian perspective." The magazine was founded in 2016 by Heiner Flassbeck and Paul Steinhardt as the successor to the blog "flassbeck-economics" and appears mainly online. Paul Steinhardt acts as contract manager and editor-in-chief. An advisory board has existed since 2020, the members of which act as editors. These include Dirk Ehnts , Andreas Gehlen, Günter Grzega, Martin Höpner , Andreas Nölke, Lydia Krüger, Hartmut Reiners, Heinrich Röder, Ulrike Simon and Peter Wahl .
profile
MAKROSKOP wants to make a clear distinction to neoclassicism and neoliberalism, and to present arguments for a different economic policy to the public. According to its own description, it is "the only magazine for economic policy from a Keynesian perspective in German-speaking countries." The website focuses on current events and debates from a macroeconomic perspective. The media critic Lutz Frühbrodt writes about MAKROSKOP: "The contents are mostly demanding essays and comments based on scientific theories and concepts. The topics range from globalization and monetary policy to ecology and social policy to economic theory."
Sociopolitical issues are also discussed, such as the role of democracy and the state in economic policy.
MAKROSKOP sees itself as a magazine for a “New Monetary Economics”, which suggests a proximity to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). In fact, not only Bill Mitchell , one of the founders of MMT, writes for MAKROSKOP. The authors include Dirk Ehnts, Günther Grunert, Michael Paetz and Paul Steinhardt, the most important representatives of MMT in Germany. Nevertheless, MAKROSKOP does not see itself as an “MMT publication”, since there is a certain “dissent about questions of monetary theory in the narrower sense” among the authors, which is openly discussed.
A print edition with a specific focus is published twice a year.
Authors
In addition to Heiner Flassbeck and Paul Steinhardt, MAKROSKOP relies on an author network of critical academics and journalists. These include Dirk Ehnts, Bill Mitchell, Stephan Schulmeister , Andreas Nölke, Peter Wahl, Werner Vontobel , Martin Höpner and Hans-Peter Martin . This includes guest contributions, for example by Jayati Gosh , Fritz Scharpf , Bernd Stegemann, Nils Heisterhagen and Robert Pfaller .
financing
The magazine offers a paid subscription in four price levels. In addition to some free articles, most of the posts are behind a payment barrier . You can also donate through the Georg Friedrich Knapp Society for Political Economy.
Special issues
Special issues are published twice a year as print editions. The following special issues have been published so far:
- The debt problem and the European crisis (autumn / winter 2017)
- Rethinking the market and the state (spring / summer 2018)
- Oh, Europe! (Autumn / winter 2018)
- Limitless freedom (spring / summer 2019)
- The State. His power and impotence (autumn / winter 2019)
- (Not) a future for work (Spring / Summer 2020)
Web links
- website
- Analyzing the economy under the macroscope , interview with Heiner Flassbeck, in: OXI (monthly newspaper) (May 3, 2016)
- WHAT ACTUALLY DOES ... Heiner Flassbeck? The former finance state secretary is fighting against the German mainstream with an online magazine , in: Manager Magazin (issue 7/2018)
- Against liberalism: Heiner Flassbeck and Paul Steinhardt plead for a return to economic policy , in: Junge Welt (July 9, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Talking about alternatives , accessed February 27, 2020.
- ↑ Imprint , accessed on February 27, 2020.
- ↑ Why MACROSCOPE? , accessed on February 27, 2020.
- ↑ Lutz Frühbrodt: Counter-public in business journalism: alternative blogs, corporate media and NGO magazines . In: Quality in Economic Journalism . Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-658-17466-8 , pp. 75-99 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-17467-5_4 .
- ↑ About us , accessed on February 27, 2020.
- ↑ Monetary story from the left , accessed on March 16, 2020.
- ↑ Special issues , accessed on February 27, 2020.
- ↑ Authors , accessed February 27, 2020.
- ↑ Georg Friedrich Knapp Society for Political Economy eV , accessed on February 27, 2020.