Dennis Snower

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Dennis Snower is Founder and President of the Global Solutions Initiative and Professor of Macroeconomics and Sustainability at the Hertie School in Berlin. He was President of Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Professor of Economics at the University of Kiel until 2019. His work examines the operation of labour markets and the welfare state and his Politeia publications include Poverty or Prosperity: What Tax is Best for a Flourishing Economy? (2010).

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‘Poverty or Prosperity: What Tax is Best for a Flourishing Economy?’, by V. Tanzi, I. Stelzer, P. Birch Sørenson, D. Snower, D. Lal, A. Brown, A. Lans Bovenberg and S. Lawlor

By Dennis Snower
March 23, 2010

‘Poverty or Prosperity: What Tax is Best for a Flourishing Economy?’, by V. Tanzi, I. Stelzer, P. Birch Sørenson, D. Snower, D. Lal, A. Brown, A. Lans...

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‘Banking Benefit: Welfare Accounts for the Individual’, by Dennis Snower, Alessio Brown

By Dennis Snower
September 1, 2009

‘Banking Benefit: Welfare Accounts for the Individual’, by Dennis Snower, Alessio Brown September 2009 Press Release

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