A Schumpeterian perspective provides new insights for fiscal policy in Europe, Peter Bofinger writes.
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Europe must invest heavily in its decarbonisation. Yet the expenditures are manageable, the alternatives unconscionable.
The world is afflicted by problems that people experience in their daily lives: clean air in congested cities, a healthy and independent life in old age, access to digital technologies…
Concluding the Social Europe series on ‘just transition’, Maja Göpel zooms out to elaborate the shift in narrative entailed.
There has been a macroeconomic blindspot in feminist narratives of the pandemic which unwittingly limits the scope of critique.
Europe is on a self-destructive course with no plausible remedies for mounting problems. The result is widespread uncertainty, helplessness and fear.
Britain’s new Prime Minister blames four decades of neoliberalism for national malaise — and continental progressives should pay attention.
New technologies drive inequality by concentrating capital income. Three policy approaches can help spread ownership and moderate disparities.
The EU’s twin transformation requires a careful balance between climate action, digitalisation, and social fairness.
Peter Bofinger explains what lies behind the conflict within Germany’s Ampelkoalition on economic policy.
1. A more business friendly environment is needed. In reality, thanks to the manifold activities of the Barroso Commission and the “better regulation” agenda, the balance between stakeholders has shifted…
Europe needs a new eco-social paradigm if it is to ward off the populist sirens and offer a positive vision for the continent.
Strong public administrations and well-funded public services are needed to ‘build back better’ after the pandemic.
A ‘socio-ecological contract’ has emerged as a way to conceive the transitions needed to steer out of today’s crises to safer harbour. What does it entail?
To deal with the climate crisis, governments must recognise that only the state has allowed the last three crises to be contained.
In the neoliberal era, economics marginalised the social sciences. But, Sheri Berman writes, only politics can tame capitalism’s chaotic gyrations.
Peter Bofinger recognises the compromises necessary for a three-party government but regrets the lack of vision to face a decade of huge challenges.