"A Modern Approach for Fair, Inclusive, Pro-active Labour Market Policies –...
Throughout the course of history, there were several so call labour market models in western societies: the United States, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and more recently Germany and, maybe,...
View Article"Saving does not Finance Investment" by Fabian Lindner
Why do neoclassical economists want the budget to be balanced and people to save more? Because they believe that “saving finances investment”. They believe that in order to finance investment, somebody...
View Article"Italy: From Recession to a new Socio-Economic Identity" by Paolo Borioni
The source of the Italian economic crisis is, needless to say, far more global than Italian. An economy so vastly dependent on industrial exports could not possibly remain unaffected by the depressive...
View Article"Measures of Well-Being" by Florence Jany-Catrice
Watch Florence Jany-Catrice of the University of Lille 1 discuss measures of well-being. This talk was recorded at the conference ‘From (un)economic growth to future well-being’ organised by the...
View Article"GDP as a Measure of Well-Being" by Jean Lambert
Watch Jean Lambert, MEP for the UK Green Party, discuss GDP as a measures of well-being. This talk was recorded at the conference ‘From (un)economic growth to future well-being’ organised by the...
View Article"How Environmental Policy can drive Growth" by Michael Jacobs
Michael Jacobs argues that green growth speaks directly to the economic priority of governments. Environmental policies, as well as tackling environmental costs, can address other market failures which...
View Article"Exiting the Crisis: A European Growth Strategy" by Francesco Prota and...
Francesco Prota Undoubtedly, the main onus of responsibility for the current global crisis is on the financial system (although the crisis erupted against the background of global economic imbalances...
View Article"What are the Merits of Economic Forecasting?" by Robert Skidelsky
“Why did no one see the crisis coming?” Queen Elizabeth II asked economists during a visit to the London School of Economics at the end of 2008. Four years later, the repeated failure of economic...
View Article"Why Do Economic Forecasters Get It Wrong?" by Mario Pianta and Alessandro...
Mario Pianta At year end we all assess the past and guess the future. We compare what we expected and what happened. We develop new expectations for the new year. In economic affairs this is...
View Article"Defining a Strategy for Growth in Spain" by Carmen de Paz Nieves
Five years after the international financial crisis hit Spain, and less than two years after the Spanish economy started experiencing a weak recovery, the country has fallen back into recession....
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