4 Dec 2020
On 19 Octob
er 2020 our honorary chairman Leo Pauwels died at the age of 84. Leo Pauwels has been the driving force behind the European Social Weeks. (more…)
28 Aug 2020
Project Syndicate is hosting the online event “The Green Recovery” about “the path to a green recovery, with an emphasis on biodiversity, energy, public investments, and financial and corporate governance.” Experts from all over the world join in, and you can be part of it, if you register in time. The event is from 16-17 September, all information in the link to Green Recovery.
Tags: corona, green economy
Posted in: ESRI, ESW
16 May 2020
Work: Democratize, Decommodify, Remediate is a manifesto about the future of work, especially of course in the light of the covid-19 pandemic. It is endorsed by many scholars around the world — Bea Cantillon, Seyla Benhabib, Saskia Sassen, Jan-Werner Müller, Thomas Pikety, and many others. The manifesto has been translated in several languages.
Tags: globalization, labour
Posted in: EPSIN, ESRI, ESW
13 Dec 2019
“We are not witnessing a battle between globalists and nationalists but—as in 1999—a clash of differing concepts of globalization. To use the term of the 1990s, alter-globalization is back. But this time, it’s coming from both the left and the right.” Says Quinn Slobodian of Wellesley College (MA) in The Nation. Worth reading with an eye on the future of world trade and the position of the European Community.
picture from https://www.nadir.org/
Tags: globalization, WTO
Posted in: ESRI