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Abstract
Discussions in the field of economics can take different forms to reach consensus or dissent among those involved. According to which rules and procedures is it possible to reach a consensus in economic policy advice? And in which cases is an all-round consensus undesirable? Based on a panel discussion at the annual conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik in Regensburg in September 2023, the following two articles reflect on consensus building and "agreeing to disagree" in the context of the work of two statutory policy advisory bodies in Germany, the German Council of Economic Experts and the Joint Economic Forecast Project Group.

My book What's Left ? is about deceit and the rich world's left, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that the most deceitful piece to be written about it in any journal in any country should appear in a magazine of the intellectual left produced in New York ("Choosing Sides," by Johann Hari). As readers were not given an honest account of its contents, I should begin by saying that I ask how wealthy socialists, liberals, and feminists in Europe and North America came to turn their backs on the victims of movements that in their misogyny, homophobia, and racism represented everything the left is against—or says it's against. I ask whether the betrayals are merely a product of a justifiable revulsion against the Bush presidency that will go when he's gone or whether there are deeper and more uncomfortable causes that call into question what it means to be left wing today.