Debt Brake (Germany’s Federal Debt Rule) - brake on the future?
Lecture series summer semester 2024
The Federal Constitutional Court's ruling on the debt brake has sparked much debate in Germany. At a time of recession and multiple crises, the highest court has made a decision that appears to force the federal government to make savings. Since then, there have been many debates revolving around the debt brake in Germany at the same time: Where can the state make savings? Should the government do so at all? Is the debt brake still appropriate or did it ever make sense?
In a lecture series on the topic "Debt brake - brake on the future? Economic policy between climate crisis, war and inflation", we want to explore these questions and dig deeper: What is debt anyway? What rules does fiscal policy need to be intergenerationally just? And what influence does monetary policy have?
To examine these questions, we want to present various academic approaches, adopt interdisciplinary perspectives and offer practical insights in order to shed light on as many aspects of sovereign debt as possible: Starting from the real-political effects of the debt brake, we first want to take a historical perspective - how did budgetary policy influence the global economic crisis almost 100 years ago, for example, and how has the view of government debt changed since then?
Then we will take a broader view: What role does sovereign debt play in international relations - especially within the European Union? And finally, we want to focus on the future: How could the debt brake, for example, be reformed? How should fiscal policy be shaped in view of the climate crisis and wars in the 21st century? And what are the new perspectives on public debt and monetary policy in the face of high inflation?
On the one hand, the lecture series is intended to be a platform for the exchange of ideas and space for discussion based on scientific findings. We see it as our particular task to bring in pluralistic perspectives and different academic disciplines in order to enable students to gain comprehensive knowledge on the complex topic of "sovereign debt".
At the same time, we want to use the lecture series to make the topic of "sovereign debt" accessible to a wider audience - after all, it is ultimately a political issue that affects us all and universities in particular. Last but not least, the lecture series is intended to provide an opportunity to bring pluralistic and interdisciplinary approaches as well as current topics more into the focus of teaching at the University of Tübingen.
The lecture series will comprise a total of 11 lectures held in German in which selected speakers will present various aspects of the economic challenges associated with fiscal and monetary policy in the face of multiple crises to students.
Die Schuldenbremse und ihre verfassungsgerichtliche Überprüfung als Hindernis politischer Gestaltungskraft
30.04.2024: Lukas Märtin - ehem. Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht
Fatale Austerität: Die wirtschaftlichen Folgen Heinrich Brünings
07.05.2024: Ph.D. Stephanie Ettmeier - Universität Bonn
Geographien der Sparpolitik: Die Schuldenbremse im historischen und räumlichen Kontext
14.05.2024: Dr. Tino Petzold - Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Sparen - Tugend oder Hemmschuh? Die Bedeutung von Schulden für die gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklung
28.05.2024: Friederike Spiecker - Autorin und freie Publizistin
China als globaler Kreditgeber
04.06.2024: Ph.D. Sebastian Horn - Weltbank
Hat die "schwäbische Hausfrau" ausgedient? Einstellungen zu Staatsverschuldung und Schuldenbremse in Deutschland
11.06.2024: Dr. Jan Behringer - Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung
Schulden, Krieg und Politik - Ausblicke aus der Antike
18.06.2024: Dr. Lisa Eberle - Universität Tübingen
Lokale Infrastruktur aus der Perspektive der volkswirtschaftlichen Forschung: Empirische Entwicklungen und Bedeutung für das Gemeinwohl
25.06.2024: Dr. Christian Raffer - Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik
Generationengerechtigkeit, Staatsverschuldung und ökologische Transformation der Gesellschaft
02.07.2024: Prof. em. Dr. Jakob Tanner - Universität Zürich
Rein in die Schulden! Wie kluge Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik aussieht
09.07.2024: Wolfgang M. Schmitt - Autor und Podcaster
Eine neue Theorie der Staatsverschuldung: Alternativen zur Schuldenbremse
16.07.2024: Prof. Dr. Peter Bofinger - Universität Würzburg, ehem. Sachverständigenrat Wirtschaft (bis 2019)
The lectures take place on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. c.t. in HS 23 in the Kupferbau. The complete program can be found on Ilias.
We look forward to seeing you there!
The Rethinking Economics Team in cooperation with the Tübingen Forum for Science and Humanities.
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