{"id":790,"date":"2025-10-02T03:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/van-den-bergh-jeroen\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:55:12","slug":"van-den-bergh-jeroen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-den-bergh-jeroen\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Den Bergh Jeroen"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJeroen van den Bergh<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"author_addthis\">\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"van den Bergh Jeroen\">\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"object-left\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><b>Jeroen van den Bergh<\/b> is ICREA research professor at the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Spain, and professor of environmental and resource economics at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research focuses on the interface between economics, environmental sciences and innovation studies. He is currently examining the economics of climate change, and applying behavioural and evolutionary economics to understand large-scale social-technological transitions to sustainable energy and transport systems. From 1997 to 2007 he was professor of environmental economics at VU University Amsterdam. He was a member of the Energy Council of the Netherlands and of the advisory council of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, as well as chairman of various programmes related to social and environmental sciences of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). In 2002 he was awarded the Royal\/Shell Prize for his research. www.icrea.es\/Web\/ScientificStaff\/JeroenvandenBergh&#8211;424<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n<div class=\"heading\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/media\/images\/broker-19\/p15.-the-virtues-of-ignoring-gdp\/36257-2-eng-gb\/p15.-the-virtues-of-ignoring-gdp_column.jpg\" alt=\"The virtues of ignoring GDP\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">The virtues of ignoring GDP<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-den-bergh-jeroen\/\">Jeroen van den Bergh<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApril 13, 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h4>\n<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tIt is now widely recognized that GDP has many shortcomings as an indicator of social welfare. It is time for macroeconomists and policy makers to finally take action.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"icons\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/themes\/inclusive-economy\/\" title=\"Inclusive Economy\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/themes\/inclusive-economy\/88460-6-eng-gb\/inclusive-economy_tiny_icon.png\" alt=\"Inclusive Economy\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"navigator\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeroen van den Bergh &nbsp; Jeroen van den Bergh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_4.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-790","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>van den Bergh Jeroen \/ Authors - The Broker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&amp;nbsp;Jeroen van den Bergh is ICREA research professor at the Universitat Aut\u00c3\u00b2noma de Barcelona, Spain, and professor of environmental and resource economics at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 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