Martin Werding is one of the new economists. He criticizes that the government is fueling inflation with its relief packages and thinks that Olaf Scholz is clearly wrong about one thing.
Interviewed by
Alexander Hageluken
Martin Werding was born in 1964, the year with the highest number of births that Germany has ever had. Since then, fewer and fewer children have been born in this country. How fitting that the economist from the University of Bochum is researching the pension gaps this demographic change is opening up. In his first interview as an economist, to which the federal government has now called him together with the economist Ulrike Malmendier, he calls for a higher retirement age as well as a Riester reform – and a return to the debt brake.