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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 8 NOVEMBER 2024

Newsletter: Turnaround paper against the trend - Symposium on the consequences of the US election and the German coalition collapse
NEW PARADIGM 5 NOVEMBER 2024

Heading Towards Chaos? - On The Economic Consequences Of Donald Trump II

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 5 JULY 2024

Eric Monnet on the Democratic Legitimacy of Mighty Central Banks
FINANCIAL WORLD 17 APRIL 2024

(Re-live) Short Cut with Martin Hellwig and Martin Wolf: On Dangerous Banks and Political Power

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 14 JUNE 2024

Modern Climate Policy: lessons from the US for Europe
CLIMATE 8 JANUARY 2024

Transformative Investments Against Stagnation. Is a New Economic Boom Possible?

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 3 JULY 2024

From glorious globalization to a world in crises – and back?
GLOBALIZATION 4 JUNE 2024

Disentangle Populism - On the brink of the next populist surge?

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
5 NOVEMBER 2024

Heading Towards Chaos? - On The Economic Consequences Of Donald Trump II
30 OCTOBER 2024

The Berlin Declaration – Five Months Later
1 NOVEMBER 2024

Beyond Trump - the Video on the Berlin Declaration
FORUM EVENTS
NEW PARADIGM WORKSHOP 19 November 2024

Heading Towards Chaos? - On The Economic Consequences Of Trump II

CURRENT ARTICLES AND STUDIES

NEW PARADIGM 8 NOVEMBER 2024

Newsletter: Turnaround paper against the trend - Symposium on the consequences of the US election and the German coalition collapse

From our Forum New Economy newsletter series

NEW PARADIGM 26 OCTOBER 2024

Newsletter: An economist for every idea? On the meaning of the progress in knowledge

From our Forum New Economy newsletter series

22 OCTOBER 2024

The Deutschmark’s Real Father?

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