The twin original sins of fiscal Europe
With the post-Maastricht fiscal rules in abeyance due to the pandemic, it’s time to address their fundamental flaws.
The right institutions for the climate transition
Global climate commitments will not amount to much without the institutional foundation the transition to a zero-carbon economy needs.
How it feels to be a rank outsider
Young working-class people may have an aversion to being categorised on the social ladder. But that doesn’t make the ladder go away.
Globalisation, telemigrants and working conditions
The globalisation of service work may not bring the major job losses feared—but it could weaken workers’ power significantly.
The lure of progressive authoritarianism
The left needs to rediscover the virtue of liberty.
Fixing climate finance
Finance was at the heart of the COP26 rupture between developed and developing countries—it’s time for a new approach.
How the climate crisis is changing Europe’s economic landscape
After four decades, the pandemic and especially the climate crisis have silenced the exponents of fiscal orthodoxy. Keynes is back.
On the way to a European digital public sphere
A European digital public sphere need not be constructed de novo. Many elements already exist to be cohered.
Tax abuse—it’s costing the earth
The world’s health workforce could be vaccinated in 36 hours if the pandemic of tax abuse were ended.
Can the crisis of social reproduction bring the demise of central-European illiberals?
Weronika Grzebalska argues that illiberal policy innovations in central Europe are fuelling the crisis of social reproduction they promised to tackle.
The feminist building-blocks of a just, sustainable economy
Jayati Ghosh finds in a UN Women report a blueprint for an economy which serves the public—rather than the other way around.
A European digital public sphere—legal and policy implications
The EU has hitherto applied conventional market-regulating tools to the online arena. It’s time to adopt a human-centred approach.
Why do we need a European digital public sphere?
Introducing a new series on a European digital public sphere, some contributors sketch what it is—and explain why we need it.
Aiming for a revolution in world trade
In the neoliberal era, global trade deals have come at the expense of workers. That can and must be reversed.
Against ‘weaponised migration’
Using stigmatising language to describe the crisis at the Poland-Belarus border is wrong and plays into Lukashenka’s hands.
Jobs and a just transition can deliver climate ambition
As COP26 continues, global social ambition will have to match that for the climate to secure a liveable world for all.
Time for a proactive domestic and European industrial policy
There is growing recognition in Europe of the need to steer an ecological industrial transition—just not enough.