Eckhard Hein
Dr. rer. pol. habil, Professor of Economics, in particular European Economic Policies, at the Berlin School of Economics and Law since 2009. Previously, Senior Researcher at the Macroeconomic Policy Institute (IMK), Hans Böckler Foundation, Düsseldorf, Visiting Professor at the University of Hamburg and Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, and Adj. Professor at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg. Eckhard Hein is a member of the coordinating committee of the Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies, a co-editor of the “Series of the Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies” (Metropolis Publisher), and a managing co-editor of “Intervention. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies”.
Research Interests
- Financial system and the macroeconomy
- European economic policies and macroeconomic policy regimes
- Distribution and growth
- Post-Keynesian macroeconomics
Selected Publications
- ‘Financialisation’, distribution, capital accumulation and productivity growth in a Post-Kaleckian model, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, 2012, 34 (3): 475-496.
- Harrodian instability and the 'normal rate' of capacity utilisation in Kaleckian models of distribution and growth – a survey, Metroeconomica, 2012, 63 (1): 139-169 (with M. Lavoie and T. van Treeck).
- The Macroeconomics of Finance-dominated Capitalism - and its Crisis, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012
- A Modern Guide to Keynesian Macroeconomics and Economic Policies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011 (editor with E. Stockhammer).
- Macroeconomic policy mix, employment and inflation in a Post-Keynesian alternative to the New Consensus model, Review of Political Economy, 2010, Vol. 22: 317-354 (with E. Stockhammer).
- Shareholder value orientation, distribution and growth – short- and medium-run effects in a Kaleckian model, Metroeconomica, 2010, 61: 302-332.
- Money, Distribution Conflict and Capital Accumulation. Contributions to ‘Monetary Analysis’, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- Distribution and growth reconsidered – empirical results for six OECD countries, in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2008, Vol. 32: 479-511 (with L. Vogel)
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