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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 27 FEBRUARY 2026

Forum newsletter: What is more dangerous: tech-gigants or part-time? New Economy Talk with Aya Jaff and Thomas Fricke
NEW PARADIGM 6 FEBRUARY 2026

ReLive Short Cut: Inheritance tax before the ruling—too much, too little, too unfair?

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 17 OCTOBER 2025

ReLive: Cutting Red Tape – But How? New Economy Short Cut with Patrick Bernau, Georg Diez and Johanna Sieben
THE STATE 26 AUGUST 2025

ReLive: New Economy Short Cut with Mark Blyth on lessons from the great inflation shock

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 17 NOVEMBER 2025

Climate policy in crisis: Short Cut ReLive with Sven Giegold, Eric Lonergan, Isabella Wedl and Bernd Weber

CLIMATE 1 JULY 2025

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

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 19 MARCH 2026

ReLive Short Cut: After ‘Made in China’ and ‘Buy American’, do we also need a ‘Buy European’ campaign?    

GLOBALIZATION, NEW PARADIGM 12 AUGUST 2025

ReLive: From export miracle to German crisis – With Wolfgang Muenchau and comments by Sander Tordoir

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

19 MARCH 2026

ReLive Short Cut: After ‘Made in China’ and ‘Buy American’, do we also need a ‘Buy European’ campaign?    

6 FEBRUARY 2026

ReLive Short Cut: Inheritance tax before the ruling—too much, too little, too unfair?
13 JANUARY 2026

ReLive Short Cut: A minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy – curse or blessing? Gabriel Zucman in conversation with Jens Südekum
FORUM EVENTS
NEW ECONOMY SHORT CUT 17 March 2026

Buy European – Protection of Industry or Dangerous Isolation?

CURRENT ARTICLES AND STUDIES

6 MARCH 2026

Forum newsletter: Buy European – Sensible industry protection or dangerous isolationism? New Economy Short Cut with Armin Steinbach
27 FEBRUARY 2026

Forum newsletter: What is more dangerous: tech-gigants or part-time? New Economy Talk with Aya Jaff and Thomas Fricke
6 FEBRUARY 2026

Forum newsletter: Vanishing Prosperity in the Annual Economic Report / The Primacy of the Economy in Crisis / A Short Cut on Inheritance Tax with Martyna Linartas and Stefan Bach

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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