Preventing the next virus outbreak
The coronavirus is not a natural disaster but the outcome of a system of agriculture subordinating animal, and human, welfare.
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by Michal Rotem on
The coronavirus is not a natural disaster but the outcome of a system of agriculture subordinating animal, and human, welfare.

by Simon Wren-Lewis on
The human effects of the coronavirus are paramount. But what will be its impact on a medium-sized economy such as that of the UK?

by Dencho Georgiev, Tatiana Houbenova-Delisivkova and Irena Ilieva on
The European Council failed to agree last week on a new budget. The optimum MFF cannot emerge from zero-sum bargaining.

by Adam Tooze on
There has been little honest reflection within the European Commission about the eurozone crisis. Until now.

by George Tyler on
The EU should bring a new climate agenda to Glasgow—including a roadmap for emerging nations to embrace a future beyond fossil fuels.

by Malcolm Fairbrother on
In talking about their future relationship with the UK, EU leaders may want to mind their language.

The new Just Transition Fund puts a coal phase-out by 2030 for the whole of Europe within reach.

by Peter Bofinger on
Keynes recognised the key role of the financial system in modern capitalist economies and Peter Bofinger argues the 2008 crisis must bring the demise of neoclassical economics—which still doesn’t.

by Oddný Helgadóttir on
Freeports may epitomise the Brexiters’ ‘global Britain’ but the UK economy performs too poorly for these to be more than luxury entrepôts.

by Monique Goyens on
In the latest contribution to our series on ‘just transition’, Monique Goyens argues that it must address the people finding it hard to pay their energy bills.

by Katharina Pistor on
The purpose of limited-liability protection was to encourage investment in corporations, yet it has evolved into a source of systemic market failure.

by Andrew Watt on
In light of the eurozone and, now, climate crises, EU macroeconomic policy co-ordination needs a reboot.
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