Topic: New economic paradigms
Does Piketty’s new blueprint offer hope for sharing a finite world’s resources?
Article / 18th July 2026Let's hope the Global Justice Report spurs a peaceful mass citizens’ movement to overcome the inevitable opposition of the ultra-rich.
Roadmap to a future that values everyone and everything
Report / 16th July 2026A new paper, Wellbeing for People and Planet: How to Value Everyone and Everything on a Thriving Planet Beyond 2030, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, argues that many of the world’s most pressing problems—from climate change and biodiversity loss to rising inequality, loneliness and declining trust in institutions—stem from a development model that prioritises economic growth over human and ecological wellbeing. By Kate Pickett and Robert Costanza.
22nd Annual Green Economics Institute Conference 2026
Event / 6th July 2026Green Economics Institute is holding their 22nd annual Green Economics Institute Conference in Oxford.
We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way
Article / 11th June 2026Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, write Olivier De Schutter, Joseph Stiglitz, Jayati Ghosh, Thomas Piketty, Kate Raworth and Jason Hickel.
Africa’s water is its future. Who will govern it?
Article / 3rd June 2026We need a new governance model for Africa that no longer treats water as charity but rather as a driver of economic transformation, a foundation of peace, and the most important asset the continent holds in trust for its children.
Human rights economy: Seeding change for an economy that enhances human rights
Article / 13th May 2026A compendium of resources from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) answer the question: how can we build economies that advance human rights, human dignity, peace and justice?
Vstani, Amerika, vstani!
Article / 20th May 2025Prišel je čas, ko mora Amerika hitro preoblikovati svoje vrednote s pomočjo bolj vključujoče in duhovne vizije, ki temelji na pravični delitvi svetovnih virov. Na vas, mladih Američanih, je, da prevzamete vodstvo in organizirate neprekinjene proteste v sleherni zvezni državi, dokler ta vsedržavni val miroljubnih protestov ne bo sčasoma zajel celotnega sveta.
World’s billionaires should pay minimum 2% wealth tax, say G20 ministers
News / 5th August 2024The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2% tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise £250bn a year for the global fight against poverty, inequality and global heating, ministers from four leading economies have suggested.
Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights
Blog / 12th July 2024Economic growth allows the few to grow ever-wealthier. Ending poverty and environmental catastrophe demands fresh thinking, writes Olivier De Schutter.