1980 zeigte Peter Fleissner in seinem Artikel Wirtschaftsprognosen zwischen Orakel, Politik und Wissenschaft (Economic forecasting – oracle, politics, or science?) in Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, September/Oktober, 37-49 auf, dass die Wirtschaftsprognosen der sozialpartnerschaftlichen Institutionen Österreichs mit der Wirklichkeit so viel zu tun…
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How the Austrian government handles a public interest. Another opinion contribution by Kurt Bayer.
Kurt Bayer explains why Trump’s tariffs policy is doomed to fail the promises of MAGA for the poor US citizens. It will rather evoke another global economic crisis.
“Ich bin nicht sicher, mit welchen Waffen der dritte Weltkrieg ausgetragen wird, aber im vierten Weltkrieg werden sie mit Stöcken und Steinen kämpfen.” Albert Einstein Das Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung e.V. (FIfF) hat ein Memorandum zu seinem 40-jährigen…
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See Kurt Bayer’s commentary on the issue of Industrial Policy in China, USA, EU and Austria here.
We welcome Kurt Bayer’s Commentary as a befriended website of GSIS. Economist Kurt Bayer served as expert at our Utopia(s) Reloaded talks in 2023. Find here his interview on “How can climate justice be executed?” (https://vimeo.com/896184065). Kurt maintains a blog…
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Two years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Albert Einstein and former Manhattan Project scientists, established the Doomsday Clock. Every year since then the state of the world had been assessed. Setting the minute…
The latest issue of FIfF Kommunikation, the German journal in the field of informatics and society, issued by the Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibilty (FIfF) in December 2024, focusses again on the topic of AI. Hans-Jörg Kreowski…
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