
How Global Food Crises Work
May 30, 2022 Hans-Werner Sinn revisits the 2007 “tortilla crisis” for a preview of what rising grain prices will mean for the world.
Hans-Werner Sinn, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Munich, is a former president of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and serves on the German economy ministry’s Advisory Council. He is the author, most recently, of The Euro Trap: On Bursting Bubbles, Budgets, and Beliefs (Oxford University Press, 2014).
May 30, 2022 Hans-Werner Sinn revisits the 2007 “tortilla crisis” for a preview of what rising grain prices will mean for the world.
Mar 28, 2022 Hans-Werner Sinn examines the policy mistakes that have left the country dangerously dependent on Russian gas.
Jan 24, 2022 Hans-Werner Sinn welcomes the European Commission's inclusion of an old energy source in its taxonomy for sustainable activities.
Nov 29, 2021 Hans-Werner Sinn thinks recent inflation data spell the end of the good life financed by the euro system’s printing press.
Sep 28, 2021 Hans-Werner Sinn argues that Germany’s outgoing chancellor too often allowed herself to be guided by pollsters.