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Moving Forward and Finding Balance in a Dynamic System

by Michiel van Veluwen | 12 Apr 2021 | critiquing / reinventing capitalism, health care, climate change & sustainability

We must place current developments in perspective. Rightly pointed out by some, climate change is the much bigger wave that lies behind Covid and that approaches faster than many care to admit. The parallels between dangerous climate change and the above-described flaws in our financial and economic system are plain. In fact, climate change and a flawed economic system might not even be two separate problems.

Nominated essay in the category master students of the Future Markets Consultation essay contest

Economics in a Post-Pandemic World – Book Review

by Project Syndicate ("The World's Opinion Page") | 20 Nov 2020 | book reviews, economics as a science

“As the policy failures of recent decades have shown, navigating the intersection of economic theory and practice is never easy, especially when powerful and wealthy interests are involved. The task for economists, then, is to debate not just economics but political economy, and their own place in it.” A review of four recent books

COVID-19, Technology, and Surveillance Capitalism

by Project Syndicate ("The World's Opinion Page") | 17 Nov 2020 | inequality & justice, technology & digitalization, freedom / liberty, opinion & ideas

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, shopping, entertainment, and communication have moved online, and tech firms’ share prices have soared. In the latest installment of CoronaNomics, PS contributor J. Bradford DeLong and NYU professor Scott Galloway join The Independent’s Ben Chu and The Telegraph’s Lizzy Burden to discuss whether we are entering an era of higher productivity, or one of surveillance capitalism, monopoly power, and spiraling inequality.”

Economics for the People

by Digital Magazine 'Aeon' | 22 Oct 2020 | opinion & ideas, critiquing / reinventing capitalism

“Against the capitalist creeds of scarcity and self-interest, a plan for humanity’s shared flourishing is finally coming into view”

Post-COVID Capitalism

by Project Syndicate ("The World's Opinion Page") | 12 Oct 2020 | critiquing / reinventing capitalism

“The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a spotlight on social, economic, and environmental risks that have been building for the past half-century of neoliberalism. Even amid the deep uncertainties of today’s global situation, one thing is clear: it is time to start questioning old assumptions and developing a new paradigm”, argues Klaus Schwab.

Building Back Fairer and Greener

by Project Syndicate ("The World's Opinion Page") | 7 Oct 2020 | opinion & ideas, climate change & sustainability, inequality & justice

“The world has a golden opportunity to build back boldly after the pandemic and put gender equality, social responsibility, and environmental protection at the heart of the recovery. With a deliberate and strategic focus on these issues, the future we sow could be more bountiful than the past.”

We Can Build a More Inclusive Government and Economy out of the Pandemic — This Blueprint Shows Us How

by The Conversation ("Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair") | 29 Sep 2020 | notices of publication, climate change & sustainability, inequality & justice

“With the country facing an uncertain economic future, the University of Sydney’s Policy Lab has brought together community and climate groups, unions and business groups to identify strategies for creating a different way of making policy and building a new economy coming out of the crisis. The product is our ‘Real Deal’ report released this week.”

How to Recover Green

by Project Syndicate ("The World's Opinion Page") | 28 Sep 2020 | economic growth & GDP, opinion & ideas, climate change & sustainability

“Now that governments have intervened in the market on an unprecedented scale, citizens have every right to demand that newly dependent sectors align themselves with long-term climate-policy goals. Policymakers already have the tools to make this happen, and doing so would accelerate economic recovery,” writes Joseph Stiglitz.

Digital Finance for a Fairer Post-Pandemic World

by Project Syndicate ("The World's Opinion Page") | 3 Sep 2020 | banking / finance sector, inequality & justice, technology & digitalization

“Digitalization provides a historic opportunity to reset private and public finance in order to help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. And the COVID-19 crisis is the ideal moment to seize it.”

Epidemics, Economics, and Externalities

by Project Syndicate ("The World's Opinion Page") | 27 Aug 2020 | economics as a science, opinion & ideas

“The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the high costs that unchecked externalities – such as those resulting from people not wearing face masks – can impose on an economy and society. Economists must begin to examine how these costs can be reconciled with ordinary consumption.”

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