Economics

Adam Tooze’s Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy sets out to understand the pandemic and its economic, social and political effects.

How Modern Monetary Theory could completely change the way governments operate.

The job guarantee is an ambitious proposal that aims to ensure everyone in society has access to fairly waged, decent work.

The foundational economy – education, health and social care, utilities, and retail – is crucial to ensure a sustainable future for our societies.

Far-right populism and green politics are now rivals in opposite corners of a polarised political ring.

A new policy paradigm needs to emerge that is capable of thinking broadly and ecologically about wellbeing, sustainability, and justice.

The Green New Deal is a vision for social and environmental transformation. What would it mean to have one in Europe?

Political differences between Germany and Central Europe cannot continue to be skirted if the EU is to effectively respond to the many challenges ahead.

Writing from Malta, Michele Kipiel argues that a democratic debate over what 5G technology is for and who controls it is both vital and urgent.

This imagined news article describes a Europe where revenues recuperated from tax evasion and avoidance are invested back into wellbeing for the benefit of society and the environment.