Clips on Climate: Postkeynesian Economics

How should we discuss welfare when understanding the role of growth and the viability of Growth-led development? One option is to look at subjective happiness. This provides an anti-materialistic view which may superficially appear more compatible with significant reductions in consumption in order to remain within safe ecological limits.

Um den sozial-ökologischen Herausforderungen zu begegnen, ist die konsequente Wiedereinbettung ökonomischer Strukturen in soziale Kontexte notwendig. Sogenannte CSX-Unternehmensmodelle bergen das Potenzial, Versorgungssysteme gemeinschaftsgetragen zu inspirieren und zu gestalten.

Özlem Onaran analyses the current problems of secular stagnation from a global perspective. At the core of global economic problems is insufficient demand caused by falling wage shares, because most individual countries, and the world as a whole are “wage-led”. Hence a strategy for global growth is to aim at increasing wages and thus the wage share, and the abandonment of policies focusing purely on national competitiveness. Financialization has broken the link between corporate profitability and investment. Reregulation of finance and higher public investment is required in order to crowd in private investment, in this way, reversing the declining trend of potential output growth.

This report presents the results of the “Financial Mechanisms for Innovative Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems” project, designed to foster a better understanding of the different ways in which financial resources can be made available and accessed to support the growth of social and solidarity economy (SSE) organizations and their ecosystems. The project is supported by the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social and Solidarity Economy of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Nach einer Einführung in die verschiedenen Problemfelder des Konsumguts Kleidung werden Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten aufgezeigt, die jede Einzelperson in ihrem Konsumverhalten bewirken kann und welche Veränderungen auf politischer Ebene und Produktionsseite notwendig sind.