Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/277540 
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2022
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[Journal:] European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (EJEEP) [ISSN:] 2052-7772 [Volume:] 19 [Issue:] 1 [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 159-173
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Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham
Abstract: 
An economy with a low stable medium-term growth rate given by ecological needs is only possible after a radical reform of the type of capitalism we have today. In an ecologically sustainable economic system, aggregate demand has to be controlled on a macroeconomic level. Of focal importance is the steering of investment. Here a national credit plan that fixes the national credit volume and to a certain extent the allocation of credit is in the centre. For consumption demand in a low-growth economy it is important that saving is low or in a zero-growth economy even zero, whereas at the same time accumulation of deficits of economic sectors or sub-sectors such as poorer households are not sustainable. Here policies to achieve a more equal distribution of income and wealth are suitable. Although comprehensive government interventions and rules are needed in an ecologically low-growth economy, the recommended system is not comparable with a planned system of the former Soviet type. Whether such an alternative system is understood as a version of highly regulated capitalism or as a new system is a question of taste.
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ecological transformation
low-growth economy
credit planB20
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