It’s wages, stupid! Analysts are pondering why millions of the same voters who favored President Obama in 2008 and (less enthusiastically) in 2012 pivoted to favor his antithesis, Donald Trump, in … Read More
Columns & Interviews

Globalisation’s Last Gasp
by Barry Eichengreen on
Does Donald Trump’s election as United States president mean that globalisation is dead, or are reports of the process’ demise greatly exaggerated? If globalisation is only partly incapacitated, not … Read More

Trump And Democracy In America
by Wolfgang Merkel on
When asked whom he would vote for on November 8, 2016 if he were an American, the man responded without a trace of hesitation: “Trump. I am just horrified about him, but Hillary is the true danger.” … Read More

A Crisis Of Representation, Not Of The Constitution
by David Abraham on
I am asked now in Germany if the United States has just experienced a crisis of its Constitution. Sometimes this question refers to winning the popular vote while losing the electoral college vote, … Read More

Europe, Alone in Trump’s World
by Mark Leonard on
Alone again. Since World War II’s end, Europe has looked at the world through a transatlantic lens. There have been ups and downs in the alliance with the United States, but it was a family … Read More

Trump: The Final Wake-Up Call
The victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election cheered right-wing populists and extremists across Europe. One has been quoted as saying that “their world is coming to an end and ours is … Read More

For A Democratic Polarisation: How To Pull The Ground From Under Right-wing Populism
by Jürgen Habermas on
After 1989, all the talk was of the “end of history” in democracy and the market economy and today we are experiencing the emergence of a new phenomenon in the form of an authoritarian/populist … Read More

Gold Plated Populism: Trump And The End Of The Liberal Order
Donald Trump’s electoral victory has startled the world. It seems to usher in an era marked by the triumph of fear and anger, brazen disregard for reason and truth, the weakening hold of liberalism, … Read More

How Neoliberalism Prepared The Way For Donald Trump
by Zygmunt Bauman on
I still vividly remember what fewer and fewer people, as time goes by, can and do: the names that Nikita Khrushchev, having decided to expose and publicly decry and condemn the crimes of the Soviet … Read More

Brexit: The View From Central Europe
The UK’s decision to withdraw from the EU is a blow to Central Europe. The region worries that the post-Brexit EU will be, among other things, less resolute in its response to an increasingly … Read More
Blogs

Europe And Treaties “Ad Excludendum”
by Ugo Marani on
The rationale behind international economic treaties made by market economies rests on two alternative basic models: the “conventio ad includendum” and the “conventio ad excludendum”. The first model … Read More

An Unexpected Ally: How Business Can Improve Life For Migrants In Poland
by Teresa Teleżyńska on
Despite its rich multicultural history, Poland has refused to welcome refugees. A recent national poll showed that 52% of Poles are against accepting refugees, 18% accept temporary relocation, and … Read More

Brexit And Neoliberalism
by Simon Wren-Lewis on
In a recent post I talked about the “neoliberal fantasists who voted Leave”. Here is Ryan Bourne from the influential Institute of Economic Affairs. He notes that “the mood music from the … Read More

The Wallonia Mouse And ‘Undemocratic’ Trade Deals
by Dani Rodrik on
It appears Belgium's Wallonia has put a nail in the coffin of the EU-Canada trade agreement (CETA) by vetoing it. The reasons, The Economist puts it, "are hard to understand." Well, yes and no. … Read More

Slovak NGOs Ease Migrant Integration Locally But Need Political Support
Migration has not been an issue in Slovakia – neither in political nor in public discourse. Eurobarometer data shows that only 2% of the population in 2014 and 4% in 2015 thought immigration posed a … Read More

Post Real Economics Feeds Post Real Politics
by Leonardo Costa on
‘Crash and learn: should we change the way we teach economics?’ is the title of the FT article which describes the growing student rebellion in Great Britain against the way economics has been taught … Read More

The West’s Other Trump
by Guy Verhofstadt on
In the second American presidential debate, Donald Trump promised that, if elected, he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton. “You’d be in jail,” Trump told her. Trump’s … Read More

Youth Guarantee: Europe Needs More Investment In Its Young People
by Thiébaut Weber on
The European Commission’s decision to maintain the Youth Guarantee, the scheme launched in 2013 to offer every young person a place of education, training or employment within four months of leaving … Read More
Talks & Events

Inequality And Its Discontents
by Brian Nolan on
Inequality is centre-stage in political debate both globally and in individual countries, being blamed for everything from Brexit to stagnating wages and growth. Professor Brian Nolan, Director of the … Read More

Investigating ‘Secular Stagnation’
by Lawrence H. Summers on
The current low-to-zero growth malaise afflicting the United States and other advanced economies, which appears unresponsive to conventional monetary policy remedies, has been explained as a case of … Read More

Breaking Through Power
by Ralph Nader on
One of The Atlantic’s hundred most influential figures in human history, Nader has been instrumental in the founding of scores of citizens groups as well as in the establishment of watchdog agencies … Read More

Where Does Growth Come From?
by Clayton Christensen on
Clayton Christensen presents brand new content on different ways to think about growth and he shared some of his unique perspective on "measuring your life" (as seen in his TED talk) with the … Read More

Where Now for Italy And the EU? A Conversation With Matteo Renzi
by Matteo Renzi on
Matteo Renzi discusses the political and economic issues facing Italy and the European Union. This conversation was recorded at the Council of Foreign Relations. … Read More

Thinking, Fast And Slow
by Daniel Kahneman on
Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of the world's leading … Read More



