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Pathways to inclusive development need to be informed by more than economic growth models alone.

Broadening the debt-led accumulation system means that claims on future income and production are used to solve today’s problems while lessons learnt from past crises are wilfully ignored.

After a few years of crisis-born reticence, the European Commission is back in love with the financial sector. Presented as a way of stimulating the dragging economic growth in the EU, the Commission has recently proposed a series of new financial...

Is the current recovery policy for the financial and economic crises in the Eurozone a genuine answer for the complexity and diversity of the problems that all member states face? Not really. The responses are too one-sided and mainly export and a...

Labour market policy has been one of the few levers available to different Eurozone countries to improve external competitiveness.

Private banks create most of our money. The rest – coins and banknotes – make up only a small percentage. Several recent developments challenge this historically-evolved arrangement. Monetary reform could be as urgent as preventing the next bankin...

Europe’s economic progress and political stability after the Second World War would not have been possible without the rise of the European middle class. This dossier shows that further progress and stability is seriously under threat, partly due...

Although 90% of businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa’s markets are small and medium enterprises (SMEs), they do not play a significant role in current GDP growth. However, SMEs can lead a much-needed economic diversification, explore new sectors and b...

You can read it in the newspapers every day: national economies are not creating enough jobs and fewer quality jobs in the productive sectors. Globalization, automation and financialization of the economy have been identified as the drivers of cur...

The stagnation in labour demand in the US is linked to the rise of finance. Strategies to encourage long-term employment growth must be found in that direction too.

Evidence shows that technological change and productivity growth do not only destroy jobs in Europe and the US, but also create them.

Review of Reclaiming Development: An Alternative Economic Policy Manual by Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel. 

Elements of the decent work agenda can improve employment conditions worldwide, but current neo-liberalist policies are counterproductive.

The creation of more decent jobs should be central to economic policies. The prevailing assumption that GDP growth alone will generate more decent work is not valid. And it obstructs the creation of a society in which labour serves and dignifies b...

Welcome to The Broker’s dossier on employment. Global employment trends can be confusing. For example, they show an increase in the numbers of unemployed people while at the same time an increase in the amount of jobs. Population growth alone cann...

Inequality rates continue to soar all over the world despite falling poverty rates and global GDP growth. The world’s richest 1% own 40% of global wealth, while the bottom half own only 1%. To improve our understanding of inequality and to identif...

Do alternative monetary models have the power to increase social inclusion? We should not be too optimistic.  

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.

This is the first blog post in a series from the OECD conference Economics for a Better World. Happiness versus wellbeing, are we talking about the same thing?

Complementary currencies can increase local economic inclusion. Is this the way forward?

An inclusive economy requires economic democracy. The development of a solidarity economy should be a key element.

Trade unions are crucial in transforming the economy since they fight for the democratic inclusion of all participants.

‘Spurring economic transition’ is the follow-up to The Broker’s debate on inequality. What are the most important conclusions of the inequality debate that it needs to address?

The problems experienced by microfinance are a good example of what is needed to achieve an inclusive economy. For example, it tends to be blind to social and psychological costs.

Given the over-sensitivity of the Gini to the middle of the distribution, and the insensitivity of the Palma, policymakers could consider a choice between the two: which aspect of the distribution are you more concerned with?

On why the post-2015 agenda should include a goal to limit the negative characteristics of inequality and how indicators of income concentration are better suited for this. One proposal that could be used is the Palma index.

According to Charles Seaford, Head of the Centre for Well-being, growth should not be the primary objective of economic policy.

Andy Storey, lecturer at University College Dublin and chairperson of Action from Ireland, questions the validity of the euro. He argues that the monetary union was designed to foreclose democracy....

Susan George, (2010), “Whose Crisis, Whose Future? Towards a Greener, Fairer, Richer World”, Polity Press, Cambridge. The book is published as well in French and Spanish, see details below. Here is a book that attempts to explain how high finances...

Does Ecological Economics have the ability to cope with short term crises of the capitalist economy, if we are primarily concerned with long-term cumulative phenomena, coevolutionary responses both by nature and institutions?A key area for our wor...

Early from the beginning of the ISEE 2010 conference, the Yasuni-ITT initiative was in my priority list among the sessions as it is at the frontier of the sustainability, ecological economics, environmental economics and political ecology debate....

This was my first time to meet up with ecological economics. Up to now my only encounter with the discipline has been through books and the journal, - more or less since the 1990s. For me, it was the occasion to watch the giants that adhere to th...

In my address to the International Society for Ecological Economics I argued that to reduce ecological footprint and solve the unemployment crisis, hours of work should be reduced. This shares the available work and reduces pressure on eco-systems...

The Broker talked to conference participants about their experience at the ISEE conference 'Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis' in Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany, August 2010. What are the outcomes? What inspired them? And, most important...

The International Society for Ecological Economics conference 2010 gathered more than 750 people providing a refreshing view of the academic thinking around ecological economy. Many sub-themes were explored and assessed, from 70 different culture...

Momentarily we find ourselves on the highway of one economic crisis leading to another. We are busy bandaging our ill economy where a short-term focus determines the vision at the cost of the long-term consequences. You don’t need to be a socialis...

The International Studies Association is hosting its 51st Annual Convention in the vibrant city of New Orleans, USA.

The financial crisis has prompted a discussion on the re-structuring of the world’s financial system. 

Increasingly, researchers are debating issues on the Internet, through blogs and other forums, rather than just in journals and at conferences. Each issue of The Broker will now include an ‘Online debate’ section, which provides summaries of exper...

The July 2007 issue of the journal Economic Policy is devoted to ‘global imbalances and aid’. Four of the papers, by economists Paul Krugman, Jeffrey Frankel, Philip Lane and William Easterly, were prepared for a special economic policy conference...