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The three-day conference Economics for a Better World has come to an end. In the future, we should invite more non-economists, like environmentalists and behavioural and social scientists.

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Economics follows politics, not the other way around. Until we have a genuine political commitment to resolve global inequality, we will not get the economics we need. 

The assumption that each extra dollar provides the same increase in well-being at all levels of income makes no sense. Yet it is fundamental to economics.

Given the increase of income inequality over the past decades, legitimizing the global market on the basis of the proliferation of free trade is questionable. Reducing wage inequality would however challenge the very foundations of free trade theory.

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