Horizon Magazine – Banks should be small and boring
Eckhard Hein, leader of WP3 – Causes and consequences of the financial crisis, was interviewed by the Horizon Magazine, the research and innovation magazine of the European Commission. As a…
Cordis – Understanding how finance can better serve the economy, society and the environment
The European Commission’s Community Research and Developement Information Service (CORDIS), issued an article on understanding how finance can better serve the economy, society and the environment based on their attendance to the final…
Representation of the public interest in banking
Most of us have little or no say in what banks can and cannot, should and should not be doing. Yet in Europe in 2016 we are all deeply affected…
Future of Finance: Infographics
FESSUD releases infographics summarizing findings from Work Package 11, which explores the possible evolution of financialisation, the financial sector and relevant policies over a 15 to 20 year time horizon. These…
A European Union Sustainable Banking Network
This policy brief suggests a proposal for the promotion of a sustainable banking system in the EU. This sustainable banking network, that we suggest to call EU Sustainable Banking Network…
Large-scale modelling of monetary policy in Energy, Environment and Economy models
Malcolm Sawyer gave a speech on ‘Alternative macroeconomic policies for EMU‘ at the occasion of the International Workshop Large-scale modelling of monetary policy in Energy, Environment and Economy models. The…
7th Annual Conference in Political Economy
Malcolm Sawyer, gave a keynote address at the occasion of the 7th Annual Conference of the International Initiative for Promotion of Political Economy, in Lisbon (PT), September 7–9, 2016. An…
25th anniversary of the Portuguese Economic and Social Council
Malcolm Sawyer, principal investigator of the FESSUD project, gave a speech at the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Portuguese Economic and Social Council, in presence of Marcelo Rebelo de…
A Proposal for Voluntary Degrowth by Redesigning Money for Sustainability, Justice, and Resilience
The period after 1971, which saw the final abandonment of a gold standard tied to the American dollar, has revealed the logical trajectory of the conventional money sign. Since the…
Financialisation & Well-being: Infographics
In evaluating the differential impact of financialisation and of the crisis on social well-being across the EU from multiple perspectives, WP5 – Finance and well-being has been focusing particularly on the relationships…
Causes & Consequences of the Financial Crisis: Infographics
The main conclusions of nearly 5 years of research in the framework of WP3 – Causes and consequences of the financial crisis have been summed up under the form of the…
Policies for Rebalancing China’s Economy and Their Global Impact
This policy brief draws on FESSUD Working Paper No. 144, “Assessing China’s Economic and Financial Prospects within the Context of Global Imbalances”. It highlights how the country could rebalance its…
The effects of the crisis on the convergence/divergence in the Euro area
This policy brief summarizes the findings of a study on the existence of a convergence/divergence among the Euro economies and on the impact of the Great Recession as well as the differences…
Financialisation, Economy, Society and Sustainable Development – Press release
Brussels, 13 September 2016 – A wide range of economists, social scientists and policy-makers from around Europe and South Africa will gather in Brussels on 27-28 September 2016 to…