Fortsetzung der Interview-Reihe zwischen Paul Jay und mir. Heute geht es um das Bretton Woods-System, den ökonomischen Wettstreit der Systeme zwischen dem Westen und der Sowjetunion, um eine sinnvolle und stabile Lohnpolitik sowie das weltweite “race to the bottom”:

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PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay. And this is Reality Asserts Itself. We’re continuing our series of interviews with Heiner Flassbeck. And Heiner now joins us in the studio. Thanks for joining us again.

Heiner worked at UNCTAD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and from 2003 to 2012 he was the director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies. Earlier in his career, amongst many accomplishments, he was the chief macro economist in the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin between ’88 and ’98, and a vice minister from October ’98 to ’99 at the Federal Ministry of Finance in Bonn.

So in the end of the last interview you were saying you hope for–and I put the words in your mouth, but you kind of agreed–a reasonable, more rational capitalism than we have now. A few years ago, about three, four years ago, I was at a conference at Bretton Woods tha…

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