New Zealand developed a set of well-being indicators to guide policy advice. AAP/Boris Jancic, CC BY-ND Christoph Schumacher, Massey University New Zealand’s first “well-being budget” has landed, prioritising well-being over economic growth. So how is […]
Martin Wolf is the associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. On 28 May he wrote an opinion piece in the FT entitled “States create useful money, but abuse it” This is […]
Researchers call for new tax rules to “tax corporations where employees work, not where ledgers hide” Cross-posted from Tax Justice Network Decades of tax wars among the world’s richest countries are unravelling the century-old global […]
It was Victor Hugo who said that all the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. In the US, inequality and collapsing capitalism means the idea of […]
They’re back! The prophets of expansionary fiscal contraction. Lars P. Syll is an economist at the Faculty of Education and Society at Malmö, Sweden, not to mention a prolific blogger on his own website. Cross-posted […]
The average citizen’s idea of what makes for his or her well-being probably includes a roof, safety, health and economic security. But how should governments steer their policy to achieve that end? By Bill Mitchell, […]
Time to rethink a failed economic model Andrew Pendleton is director, policy and advocacy at the New Economics Foundation Cross-posted from the New Statesman The fate of British Steel is evidence that our economic model […]
… is a Europe where people treat each other honestly and fairly. But unfortunately that does not exist. The European election campaign of the political centre was dedicated to just one goal: brutally suppressing the […]
A great weekend read. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World” should be appearing in October. Cross-posted from […]
On 1 April in Berlin in our series of talks entitled “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” Branko Milanović discussed the evolution in global income inequality and its political implications; in particular, the rise of the […]
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