Reforming the digital economy so that it serves collective ends is the defining economic challenge of our time.
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Rather than public institutions being limited to fixing market failures, organisations such as the BBC are also market shapers.
While exposing and exacerbating longstanding inequalities, the pandemic has given rise to a wealth of promising local initiatives.
The world is approaching a tipping point on climate change, when protecting the future of civilisation will require dramatic interventions.
After the 2008 global financial crisis, a consensus emerged that the public sector had a responsibility to intervene to bail out systemically important banks and stimulate economic growth. But that…
After the 2008 financial crisis, we learned the hard way what happens when governments flood the economy with unconditional liquidity, rather than laying the foundation for a sustainable and inclusive recovery.
Discussions about building a green future tend to focus on the need to improve the generation of energy from renewable sources. But that is just the first step. Better mechanisms…
The pandemic has created a huge opportunity to restore mission-driven governance in the public interest.
The global agreement reached in Paris last week is actually the third climate agreement reached in the past month. The first happened at the end of November, when a group…
The European Commission’s push to slash regulations in pursuit of competitiveness risks undermining the very foundations of technological progress.
It’s time to talk about a new social contract—one that women desperately need.
Seven economists (including Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty, and me) have agreed to become economic advisers to Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the British Labour Party. I hope we will…
Iceland transformed its heating system from oil to geothermal at a surprising speed—Europe should take note.
The lessons of necessity and solidarity learned during the pandemic must inform a transition to a just society within ecological limits in its aftermath.
Trump and Sanders now converge on sovereign funds holding corporate shares, scrambling familiar ideological lines.
Bruegel wants the EU to drop its manufacturing target and trust the market China spent decades engineering.
The Draghi report warns of stagnation, but does Europe need more growth—or a new economic vision?