Autor*innen Rudolf HickelJohann-Günther KönigHermannus Pfeiffer

PROFIT IS NOT ENOUGH! - 21 ECONOMIC MYTHS

  • Why the market is not always right – fact-checking economic dogmas. 
  • A book for all those who wonder what’s gone wrong in the economy.
  • Questions that we deal with every day and which affect us all – explained in a concise and easily understandable way.

Debts damage our children’s future. Public authorities have to break even. Basic income is not affordable. Crises come, but they also go again. We hear such theses every day. But are they true? Three renowned economics experts separate the wheat from the chaff and debunk 21 economic myths that have been damaging to all of us for a long time now. They explain why we hardly get any interest on our savings any more, whether the Internet is a stable economic factor, whether carbon offsetting can effectively lower CO2 emissions – and which principles are behind all of this. And they keep asking: is there an alternative, is there a better way?

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 16.02.2021
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-00533-6
  • 320 Pages
  • Authors: Rudolf HickelJohann-Günther KönigHermannus Pfeiffer

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PROFIT IS NOT ENOUGH! - 21 ECONOMIC MYTHS
Rudolf Hickel Johann-Günther König Hermannus Pfeiffer PROFIT IS NOT ENOUGH! - 21 ECONOMIC MYTHS
Frank Koch
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Rudolf Hickel

Rudolf Hickel, geboren 1942, war zuletzt Professor für Finanzwissenschaft an der Universität Bremen und ist Gründer des Instituts Arbeit und Wirtschaft. Er ist Autor des jährlichen Memorandums zur „Alternativen Wirtschaftspolitik“ sowie Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats von ATTAC. Zuletzt bei Rowohlt erschienen: "Kassensturz" (2006).

Hajo König
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Johann-Günther König

Johann-Günther König, geboren 1952 in Bremen, Dr. phil; Studium der Sozialpädagogik, Promotion im Rahmen der Kinderkulturforschung. In den 1990er Jahren arbeitete er als Manager für ein Großunternehmen.  Bei Rowohlt zuletzt erschienen: "Die spinnen, die Briten" (2016).       

Janja Nahrstaedt
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Hermannus Pfeiffer

Hermannus Pfeiffer, born in 1956, holds a doctorate in governance and public policy, is the owner of the presseBüros finanzDienstleistungen, and works as a finance journalist in Hamburg, mainly writing for daily newspapers. His most recent publication with Rowohlt was Die Zähmung des Geldes (2000).