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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.

NEW PARADIGM 22 MAY 2023

The New Paradigm Papers of the Month of May
NEW PARADIGM 16 MAY 2023

When and How to Use Price Controls, Isabella Weber?

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 7 OCTOBER 2022

Rodrik and Kukies in Conversation: The Return of Good Jobs in Bad Times
THE STATE 5 AUGUST 2022

The Adventures of Money

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 25 MAY 2023

Upcoming New Economy Short Cut: Reducing Government Debt, But How?
FINANCIAL WORLD 9 MAY 2023

Re-live: Philip Lane on Inflation

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 15 MAY 2023

Lessons From the Energy Crisis – How to Prepare for the Next Shock
CLIMATE 12 MAY 2023

Energy Shock - Is Germany Facing Deindustrialization?

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 16 MARCH 2023

Recap: Will the Gender Pay Gap disappear anytime soon?
INEQUALITY 28 FEBRUARY 2023

Event: Is the Shortage of Skilled Workers Narrowing the Gender Pay Gap?

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 11 OCTOBER 2022

Should We All Work Less?
INNOVATION LAB 6 SEPTEMBER 2022

Arguing for Degrowth – What’s the Evidence?

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 12 MAY 2023

Redefining the German Export Model
GLOBALIZATION 18 JANUARY 2023

Recap: Prosperity in a Post-Global World – Short Cut with Rana Foroohar and Holger Görg

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 22 DECEMBER 2022

Interview: What Do EU Citizens Think About Austerity?
EUROPE 7 DECEMBER 2022

What could better EU debt rules look like? Short Cut with J. Zettelmeyer and A. Truger
25 MAY 2023

Upcoming New Economy Short Cut: Reducing Government Debt, But How?
16 MAY 2023

When and How to Use Price Controls, Isabella Weber?
11 MAY 2023

Robert Habeck on the Transformation of the German Economy

CURRENT ARTICLES AND STUDIES

NEW PARADIGM 22 MAY 2023

The New Paradigm Papers of the Month of May

Once a month the Forum New Economy is showcasing a handful of selected research papers that lead the way towards a new economic paradigm.

15 MAY 2023

Lessons From the Energy Crisis – How to Prepare for the Next Shock
12 MAY 2023

Redefining the German Export Model

ALL FORUM NEW ECONOMY PAPERS AT A GLANCE

Since our launch in 2019 we published more than two dozen studies. The latest: New Thinking, New Actors - Mapping the State of an Emerging Socio-Economic Paradigm Shift in Germany and Beyond.

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.

Our partners

Forum New Economy is glad to cooperate with a network of leading institutions and high-level academic partners.