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Welcome
The global financial crisis has dealt a shattering blow to the neoliberal faith in laissez-faire as the dominant guiding principle for the organisation of markets. The crisis has also exposed the fragility of globalisation: as sources of financing dry up, we are witnessing a dramatic collapse in world trade, shrinking capital flows and a worrying rise in anti-immigrant sentiment.
These developments have huge implications for the future of the progressive project. On the one hand, progressive governments and policymakers around the world will need to re-build an international economic and financial order at a time when the tendency is to focus on state-level solutions. On the other hand, as faith in unregulated markets crumbles, they will need to fill an ideological vacuum which risks being taken over by populists.
Meeting these challenges will require a critical but forward-looking debate on the issues and options available for reform. The aim of this “handbook of ideas” is to advance this debate by bringing together short policy recommendations and proposals by leading international thinkers on how progressives should approach the major economic and political challenges thrown up by the global crisis.
Click on the names listed below to debate and comment on the ideas
→ Read the Introduction: Progressive politics after the financial crisis, by Olaf Cramme & Elena Jurado
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Download the Handbook of Ideas [PDF, 548kb]
Ideas:
- Glauco Arbix:
Developing countries in the face of the storm - Robert Atkinson:
Innovating out of the crisis - Dean Baker:
Reforming welfare around workers - Howard Davies:
Striking the right balance - Barry Eichengreen:
Five ideas for strengthening the IMF - Simon J. Evenett:
Hammering economic protectionism - Aldo Ferrer:
In defence of public policies - Maurizio Ferrera:
The progressive welfare mix
- James K. Galbraith:
A people first strategy - Marco Aurélio Garcia:
The state in a shifting economic paradigm - Anthony Giddens:
Bridging the gaps in climate change Policy - Refet Gürkaynak:
Rehabilitating financial markets - Clarisa Hardy:
The future of social protection - Barbara Harriss-White:
Linking ecological and economic security - David Held & Kevin Young:
The equivalence principle - Anton Hemerijck:
In search of a new welfare state
- Gary Hufbauer:
Slowing the protectionist juggernaut - Will Hutton:
A grand bargain for global capital - John Kay:
Taming the financial casino - Bernardo Kliksberg:
Protecting the vulnerable in the world’s most unequal region - Bernardo Kosacoff:
Laying the foundations for future progress - Ricardo Lagos Escobar:
Transformation through the crisis - Ricardo Lagos Weber:
Telling the truth about trade - Oscar Landerretche:
Three progressive ideas for the recession
- Roger Liddle:
Recalibrating industrial policy - Will Marshall:
A social contract for the global age? - Ricardo Núñez Muñoz:
Towards global justice - Martha C. Nussbaum:
Creating capabilities for development - José Antonio Ocampo:
A new world development architecture - Katharina Pistor:
Financial governance networks - Marcio Pochmann:
A transformative strategy for the state - John Podesta:
The green opportunity
- Robert B. Reich:
Restructure now - Jeremy Rifkin:
The third industrial revolution - Andrés Rivera:
An equitable climate change framework - Miranda A. Schreurs:
Clean change in a crisis - Gunnar Folke Schuppert:
The new interventionist state - Ngaire Woods:
Saving globalisation…..again?
