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New Paradigm

After decades of overly naive market belief, we urgently need new answers to the great challenges of our time and a whole new paradigm to guide us.

GLOBALIZATION, NEW PARADIGM 12 AUGUST 2025

From export miracle to German crisis – With Wolfgang Muenchau and comments by Sander Tordoir
NEW PARADIGM 11 AUGUST 2025

Maja Göpel: ‘We need a totally new economic paradigm.’

Redefining
the role of
the state

For decades, there was a consensus that reducing the role of the state and cutting public debt would generate wealth. New research focuses on defining when government action is economically sensible and necessary.

THE STATE 8 OCTOBER 2024

Re-live: Good Money - A Question of Political Will? With Philippa Sigl-Glöckner and Stefan Kolev
THE STATE 13 JUNE 2024

Making government action more efficient

Remaking
finance

More than a decade after the financial crisis there still seems to be something seriously wrong with the financial system. A better financial system needs to counter herding, booms and busts and the inherent tendency towards instability.

FINANCIAL WORLD 20 JUNE 2025

The Berlin Summit 2025: Towards the next financial meltdown? – Learnings from recent crises for the future
FINANCIAL WORLD 5 JULY 2024

Eric Monnet on the Democratic Legitimacy of Mighty Central Banks

Greening
prosperity

During the high point of market orthodoxy, economists argued that the most 'efficient' way to combat climate change was to let markets determine the price of carbon emissions. Today, there is a growing consensus that a carbon price on its own might not be enough.

CLIMATE 1 JULY 2025

The Berlin Summit 2025: Modern Climate Policy – Designing a policy mix beyond the fixation on carbon pricing
CLIMATE 29 APRIL 2025

Short Cut ReLive: Climate Policy through Price Shocks? – Prospects and Alternatives

Reducing
inequality

The rising gap between rich and poor has become a threat to social cohesion in most rich countries. To reverse this trend it will be crucial to better understand the importance of different drivers of income and wealth inequality.

INEQUALITY 31 JULY 2024

Wealth Creation: How Badly Off Are German Companies Really?
INEQUALITY 19 DECEMBER 2023

Launch of a Wealth Simulator - the Highlights

Innovation Lab

Do we need a whole new understanding of economic growth? How viable are alternatives to GDP when it comes to measuring prosperity? An understanding of these and other more fundamental challenges is urgently needed.

INNOVATION LAB 28 JUNE 2023

Rewatch Short Cut with Richard Layard: The Benefits of Wellbeing as a Public Policy Objective
INNOVATION LAB 11 OCTOBER 2022

Should We All Work Less?

Globalization
for all

After three decades of poorly managed integration, globalization is threatened by social discontent and the rise of populist forces. A new paradigm will need better ways not only to compensate the groups that have lost, but to distribute the gains more broadly from the start.

GLOBALIZATION, NEW PARADIGM 12 AUGUST 2025

From export miracle to German crisis – With Wolfgang Muenchau and comments by Sander Tordoir
GLOBALIZATION 3 JUNE 2025

New Economy Short Cut: From Smoot-Hawley to Trump?

Europe
beyond markets

A deep belief in self-regulating markets and market-driven integration lead to major imbalances in the Eurozone. New research needs to focus on the policies needed to foster economic convergence and prevent future panics.

EUROPE 13 JUNE 2024

European elections ahead – The next shock?
EUROPE 25 MARCH 2024

Lessons from the Inflation Shock

12 AUGUST 2025

From export miracle to German crisis – With Wolfgang Muenchau and comments by Sander Tordoir
16 JUNE 2025

The Berlin Summit 2025: What we learned, what lies ahead
31 JULY 2025

The New Paradigm Papers of the Month of July

CURRENT ARTICLES AND STUDIES

11 AUGUST 2025

Maja Göpel: ‘We need a totally new economic paradigm.’

5 AUGUST 2025

Paul de Grauwe: ‘Banks sit on huge amounts of money that should normally go to tax payers and governments.’
31 JULY 2025

Harold James: ‘Growth alone is not enough to solve people's worries.’

ALL FORUM NEW ECONOMY PAPERS AT A GLANCE

Since our launch in 2019 we published more than two dozen studies. Here you will find an overview.

What does the New Economy Forum do?

More and more economists around the world are searching for innovative concepts to make economic and societal trends more sustainable. Supporting these ideas and exploring their real value, is one of the main goals of this Forum.

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