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\n\t\t\tBroadening the debt-led accumulation system means that claims on future income and production are used to solve today\u2019s problems while lessons learnt from past crises are wilfully ignored.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe political project to erect a Capital Markets Union (CMU) could be the dawn of a new era of financial (re)deregulation in Europe.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Capital Markets Union and the mirage of resilience<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tDrawing on rhetoric of resilient markets and the need for diversity, the European Commission is pushing for a capital markets union to extend market-based finance in the EU. This move risks marginalizing current attempts to control the potential f…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Capital Markets Union \u2013 another European failure?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe stepping up of the capital market-based financial system and consequent financial liberalization is neither necessary nor desirable.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Financial resilience is defined by sustainability, not deregulation<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tDoes Europe\u2019s reignited love affair with the financial sector come at the price of a divorce from its commitments to climate change, development and human rights?\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The Capital Markets Union: new limits on a democratic Europe<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tCritiquing the Capital Markets Union plan is invaluable, but only effective as part of a larger critique on the historical, anti-democratic form of European integration.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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More love between Europe’s financial industry and the European Commission<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tHas post-crisis regulation of the financial sector gone too far? The European Commission seems to think so.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Europe and the financial sector: a continuing love affair<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tAfter 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…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Social rights and rebalancing the Eurozone<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Minimal conditions for survival of the euro <\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tFor the single currency to survive, Europe needs both more political integration and less political integration. The trick is to understand when less is more.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The European Central Bank rules in a democratic void <\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe European Central Bank is holding together a poorly-designed monetary system in difficult circumstances. But this does not justify the fact that democratic governments have no way of holding it accountable.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The next step: boosting public investments<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe Euro Treasury Plan is an alternative recovery program for the Eurozone. It combines the much warranted public investment initiative with a joint funding facility in a step closer towards a fiscal union.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Eurobonds, but without moral hazard<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe fear of northern Eurozone members that the introduction of Eurobonds will result in their southern European companions automatically taking cheap loans again is unfounded.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Is controlled disintegration the answer?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tIf the only reason to stay in the Eurozone is that it is difficult to get out, the case for the single currency is weak. Staying in may well be the smart thing to do, but it is still politically toxic to put this decision beyond popular control.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The Eurozone crisis: not time to relax yet<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tSince the summer of 2015, European media and politicians have devoted significant attention to the refugee crisis. As a result, the crisis in the Eurozone, which had previously dominated discussions in the media and among politicians, seems to hav…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The rebirth of the Eurozone<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tIs 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…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Debts and imbalances<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe structural causes of the euro crisis \u2013 high unemployment, low growth rates and debt-ridden states in the eurozone \u2013 are not the fault of lazy Greeks, Portuguese and Spaniards. The euro itself cannot be blamed either. The problem is that the Eu…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Clash of economic classes, not of nations<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe argument that pits the lazy Greek or Spaniard against the hard-working Dutchman or Fin is clearly too simplistic. It is not a clash of nations, but of economic classes.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Ideals versus reality<\/a><\/h3>\n

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How neglecting the Eurozone budget rules helped countries politically and economically<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tCountries need more time during recession to decrease their budget deficit while increasing economic growth.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Financial system: no empty cockpit<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tGovernments should not hesitate to visibly and accountably occupy their empty seat in the cockpit of the financial system. In our new research article ‘The licence to create money’ we explore the alternatives to what is currently at the heart of t…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Licensed to Print Money<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Concerns about the European middle class – part 2<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t20 May 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe hard knocks being suffered by the European middle class are leading to shifts in the political landscape of Europe. The causes date back to long before the financial crisis of 2008. It is therefore an illusion to hope that this dip is temporar…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Making globalization work for the European middle class<\/a><\/h3>\n

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The menace of over-indebtedness for the EU\u2019s middle class<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t28 April 2025
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Who are the \u2018middle\u2019?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tThe much-debated squeeze of the middle class in Europe is real, but very different from country to country. The squeeze is felt most in the countries most affected by the financial crisis, like Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece, where austerity me…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Creating jobs at the heart of economic policy<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tYou 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…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Precarious work: a concern for the well off<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEvert-jan Quak<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t11 December 2025
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\n\t\t\tLinking precarious work to the debate on income inequality shows that precarious work not only affects the \u2018losers\u2019 of globalization, but also the \u2018winners\u2019.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Why reducing inequality is an economic imperative<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t27 October 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe shift from wages to profits has led to an increase in inequality over the last three decades.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t14 October 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe 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.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t12 August 2025
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\n\t\t\tBy their excessive use of debt, private equity companies in the US increase the risk of bankruptcy of real economy companies they acquire.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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How excessive inequality bit the rich North<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMay 02, 2025
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\n\t\t\tIn one of the chapters in the book \u2018Het crisisdiner’ (The Crisis Dinner, published in Dutch, February 2014), Oxfam Novib director Tom van der Lee writes about the impact of inequality in the United States and Europe on the current economic downtur…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t, Timo Mahn<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t18 April 2025
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\n\t\t\tGlobal efforts to counter tax avoidance by multinational companies call for a rethink of policies on the taxation of aid workers and development projects.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The risk of a jobless recovery in Southern Europe<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJavier Andr\u00e9s<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t31 March 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe key to avoiding the risk of a jobless recovery in Southern Europe lies in the combination of wage flexibility and human capital accumulation.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The economic crisis and the crisis of subjective well-being<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJorge Guardiola<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t31 July 2025
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\n\t\t\tIt is time to recognize the usefulness of creating institutions that aim to guarantee people’s welfare instead of conditioning them to market imperatives.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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More appreciation, less manipulation<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t24 July 2025
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\n\t\t\tFundamental systemic change is needed, starting with a cultural paradigm shift based on appreciation of our environment.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Planet earth is wage-led!<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tEconomic growth should go hand in hand with an improvement in wage share and vice versa. However, current economic policy does not.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The inequality of macroeconomic risk<\/a><\/h3>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNick Galasso<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t27 May 2025
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\n\t\t\tFood price hikes, natural disasters, environmental degradation, and financial crises share at least two things in common: They\u2019re on the rise, and they unequally burden the poor. \n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRoel van Engelen<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t06 March 2025
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\n\t\t\tThe economic crisis is being handled in a way that benefits a small and wealthy group of technocratic European politicians, investors and entrepreneurs. It therefore appears to serve as an instrument to cut down on democracy and to increase inequa…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t08 December 2025
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\n\t\t\tNormally I avoid discussions about the future of NGOs like the plague \u2013 they either involve a bunch of academics with only the vaguest idea of what we actually do all day, or a lot of senior managers emitting sonorous pronouncements on how we need…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t28 November 2025
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t25 October 2025
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Trade negotiations limit re-regulation of financial markets<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t20 September 2025
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\n\t\t\tLast week I had the opportunity to speak with Myriam Vander Stichele, a dedicated senior researcher at the Amsterdam-based Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations. She spoke about this week\u2019s WTO Public Forum discussing \u201cSeeking answers…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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Slow progress on Paris Declaration<\/a><\/h3>\n

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How excessive inequality undermines democracy<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tEngland 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\u2019m reading a speech by Professor of Economics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Pa…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tDoes 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…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tISEE President John Gowdy talks to The Broker about the challenges ahead in the field of ecological economics at the 2010 ISEE conference ‘Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis’ in Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany, August 2010….\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tMomentarily 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\u2019t need to be a socialis…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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The Degrowth argument: what has changed from the 1970\u00b4s?<\/a><\/h3>\n

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\n\t\t\tOn Sunday I join the working group on political strategies. The two dozen people assembled in the courtyard repeatedly return to a big question that begs a satisfactory answer in order to develop viable political strategies for degrowth. Back in…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tCould de-growth reduce poverty and avoid climate change? A scientific study coordinated by researchers of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona has recently argued that \u201cThe solution both t…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIn my last blog I discussed the fact that poverty and even rights-based agendas can be easily co-opted into a ‘Washington Consensus’ policy paradigm. How then can we avoid this propensity? In my background paper I suggested that this should be don…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t22 June 2025
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\n\t\t\tMarieke Hounjet is reporting live from the Brussels Forum for The BrokerThe second plenary of the High Level Policy Forum today in Brussels was titled: \u2018What are the key meta-processes shaping development over the next 10-15 years and what do they…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tI\u2019d like to blog on the \u2018After 2015\u2019 theme from the point of view of having co-led the 23 June with colleagues and friends at IDS, The Broker, ActionAid, DSA, and EADI.Looking for key emergent themes I\u2019ve also just re-read the special policy brief…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tIncreasingly, 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 \u2018Online debate\u2019 section, which provides summaries of exper…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tOver 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\u2019…\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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