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A Cross-Cultural Digital Media Dialogue between Hamburg and Chicago

The Goethe-Institut has teamed up with Chicago’s Free Spirit Media and the Hamburg radio and television station TIDE to get high school students from both sides of the Atlantic dialoging about the issues young adults see themselves facing, and how to address them constructively.More ...

The New York Stock Exchange; © Colourbox

The “Buddenbrook Effect”: The Financial Crisis from the Sociological Point of View

The economic crisis is also, and perhaps especially, a social crisis, and so a case for sociological analysis.More ...

The Renaissance of Erhard's visions Copyright: istockphoto - Brasil2

The Honourable Merchant – The Return of the Social Market Economy

Are the collapse of the financial markets and the looming recession also threatening the disintegration of Germany’s successful model, the social market economy? After the economic miracle of the post-war period and the hard years of social-security cutbacks, politicians and their critics are calling for a return to the virtues of the young Federal Republic.More ...