Publications +

Political Transition

Deplanning the planned obsolescence (in French)

Thierry Libaert

One day or another, everyone might find himself confronted with concrete results of planned obsolescence: the inability to fix a broken computer, to...

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Political Transition

Carbon tax and climate finance (in French)

Emmanuel Combet & Jean-Charles Hourcade

The carbon tax is not popular in France. Due to an anti-fiscal reflex, it is critized as a measure which hits mostly the poorest population, a constraint...

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Political Transition

Should we put a price-tag on nature?

Jean Gadrey & Aurore Lalucq

Can we trust in the tools proposed by economists?

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Working Papers &...

Who Are These Economists, Anyway?

James Galbraith

The financial crisis revealed the fundamental failure of mainstream economics, but it is simply not true that no one had foreseen the crisis. In response...

In Short +

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  Financial crises Finance & Soutenabili Financial and Banking

  14 June 2018, by Wojtek Kalinowski

  Reimagine the Financial System

  Veblen Institute joins the European "Change Finance" Coalition.

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  Finance & Soutenabili Monetary Policy

  6 June 2018, by Wojtek Kalinowski

  Central Banks Should Lead by Example on Transparency and Climate Change

  Over 50 organizations call on central banks to walk the talk when it comes to transparency and tackling climate change.
  In a letter drawn up by the New (...)

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  The role of experts Theories of development

  11 April 2018

  “Behavioural economics is a dead-end for development policies”

  Interview with Jean-Michel Servet, author of ’’L’Economie comportemantale en question’’ (Editions Charles-Leopold Mayer 2018).