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The rebirth of stakeholder capitalism?
Robert B. Reich | 19 August 2025The US may be witnessing the beginning of a return to stakeholder capitalism.
read moreThe flipside of Piketty’s analysis
Paul de Beer | 20 May 2025Piketty largely ignores what the concentration of wealth means for decision-making on economic development. We should focus on distributing wealth, for example by making employees shareholders of their own companies.
read moreThe labour market as a mechanism of social inclusion
Oscar Roberto Silva | 11 April 2025The following proposal is aimed at employment creation in the light of the alarming indices of labour market exclusion from which different parts of the world suffer.
read moreExorcising the Curse of Voodoo Economics
David Sogge | 09 April 2025Review of Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual by Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel.
read moreEliminating ‘job hunger’
Herman Knudsen | 13 March 2025Elements of the decent work agenda can improve employment conditions worldwide, but current neo-liberalist policies are counterproductive.
read moreCapitalism and resource management
Oliver Schultz | 13 January 2025Most discussions of power in natural resource management tend to omit the primary issue of capitalism.
read moreWe need the private sector
Christopher Purdy | 01 August 2025If we want to increase jobs and reduce poverty, we must emphasize the private sector's role in development.
read moreComplementary currency: barter 2.0 or crisis escape?
Annemarie van de Vijsel | 27 June 2025Complementary currencies can increase local economic inclusion. Is this the way forward?
read moreLooking at South America for answers
Milford Bateman | 23 May 2025South American countries are experimenting with the social and solidarity economy (SSE) model. It’s time for the West to learn from them, argues Milford Bateman.
read moreHow to fund pro-poor economic strategies
Alfredo Saad Filho | 15 May 2025Pro-poor strategies that are inclusive should be funded primarily by domestic sources, because foreign savings and investment tend to be volatile and difficult to target. However, this can be a problem for the very poor countries.
read moreThe nature of development lies in social integration
Henk Molenaar | 05 October 2024According to Henk Molenaar, we are in need of a single, powerful concept to rival growth as development paradigm.
read moreAnother development gimmick in the making
Claudio Schuftan | 25 September 2024According to Claudio Shuftan, the changes needed in the current economic climate are so drastic that mega philanthropies and their sponsors will never accept them.
read moreHow excessive inequality undermines democracy
Evert-jan Quak | 10 August 2025England has been in the grip of looting, rioting and vandalism during the past days. And being in England at the moment - with BBC News on in the background - I’m reading a speech by Professor of Economics at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Pa...
read moreTaming capitalism through constitutional action?
06 July 2025Nancy Peluso’s exciting and much discussed keynote speech drew on the metaphor of the 'Beauty and the Beast'. Using the humorous but thought-provoking imagery of the story, Peluso highlighted the variety of ways in which the relationship between n...
read moreNature™ Inc off to a good start
Bram Büscher | 30 June 2025Finally, after a year of preparations, the Nature™ Inc Conference started today! This conference, held at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Hague, seeks to critically engage with the market panacea in environmental policy and conservati...
read moreEmerged powers in the 21st century
June 03, 2025The Broker has started a new series on Emerged States. We kicked off with the articles Turkey turns the tide and Brazil braves new waters.
read moreCurrent global affairs
February 02, 2025The blog ‘Current Global Affairs’ provides a window for reflection on news events, topical issues and developments. The blog focuses on the wider implications of current affairs, beyond the immediate impact of events as-they-unfold. Would you like...
read moreConcepts for a radical change towards sustainability? (ISEE 2010)
Diego Murguía | 24 August 2025The ISEE 2010 Tuesday sessions by Tim Jackson and Juliet Schor hit on the heart of the economic model (accumulation, growth and consumerism) by proposing innovative visions of how to reform capitalism towards human well-being.Before the talk start...
read moreModeration in all Things, but…
Richard Register | 16 June 2025I used to joke about my unusual life, being a sculptor, environmental activist, development politician. I lived in a mountain village in New Mexico at 9,000 feet (back to the land!), in a studio storefront in Venice, California (loved the art scen...
read moreDegrowth must consider ecocity design and planning
Richard Register | 12 April 2025I have noticed that there were few tools offered in my memory of the Degrowth conference for actually bringing in a new economics that embodies degrowth. I followed Joan Martinez-Alier’s links and some of the text of the contents of the publicatio...
read moreDegrowth, what next?
Gjalt Huppes | 28 March 2025We face a number of highly challenging tendencies which require fundamental new approaches to get us on the track of a decent global society. First, the industrial transformation of societies has taken off globally. It is not a matter if but only...
read moreGlobal green economics
March 25, 2025The Green Economy is one of the key themes to be addressed by the UNCSD summit in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. But what is exactly the concept of a green economy?
read moreRedeveloping finance
October 26, 2024The financial crisis has prompted a discussion on the re-structuring of the world’s financial system.
read moreFrans Bieckmann
May 05, 2025Editor in Chief Frans Bieckmann will update an editor's blog reflecting on the thought processes behind production of The Broker and highlighting interesting, useful and unusual information that he comes across day to day
read moreHere to stay
Gerd Junne | April 01, 2025Expectations were high that authoritarian regimes would not survive the expansion of capitalism. However, in the Middle East there are strong currents that underpin authoritarianism. Trying to impose democracy from the outside will not help. Only...
read moreEditiorial: Crisis? What crisis?
Frans Bieckmann | December 02, 2024Over the last four months, two events have changed global prospects profoundly. The financial crisis has done more than just shake the seemingly most powerful and inviolable countries, companies and institutions in the world. It has definitely KO’...
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