Big Problems, New Solutions: Reimagining Economic Policy Making

In a world increasingly defined by overlapping crises, our societal and environmental resilience is pushed to its limits. Traditional economic thinking often falls short in addressing these interconnected challenges, highlighting the need for bold, creative, and collective responses. This moment calls for a resurgence of heterodox economic ideas, closely intertwined with policy-making and civil society discourses. However, bridging the gap between academia and real-world application remains a significant challenge.

What?

Join us for a one-day workshop designed to foster inclusive debate, learning, and connection across the policy-academia divide. Featuring six panels, the workshop will bring together scholars from various economic schools of thought, policymakers, and civil society actors to discuss collaboration challenges, shared goals, and strengths. Panel topics include:

• Research to Reality: Translating Heterodox Research into Policy
• Getting the Macro Formula Right: Debt, Inflation, and Fiscal Crisis
• Why Work? Squeezed Labor between Precarity, Platforms, and Unions
• Green Industrial Policy: A Path for Growth and Transformation
• Double or Nothing? Female Labor Force Participation and Economic Empowerment
• International Institutions and Geopolitics: The Politics of Economic Policy

In the afternoon, a poster session will provide advanced PhD students with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with policymakers and peers.

Ultimately, this event seeks to foster connection, critical debate, and reflection across the policy-academic divide, bringing together policymakers interested in engaging with heterodox ideas, as well as young and established scholars seeking to expand their focus on and engagement with real-world policy issues. Together, we’ll explore which theories and practices can offer just, sustainable, and equitable solutions to the pressing question, ‘What is to be done?’

Who Can Participate?

Policy Makers: If you are interested in engaging with current debates in heterodox economics, we welcome your valuable insights.

PhD Students:
1.Poster Presentation: Apply to present your research related to our panel topics or the academia-policy divide.
 2.Event Participation (only): Join the panel discussions even if you are not presenting a poster.

Postgraduate Students: New to heterodox academia and policy? You’re welcome to attend and enrich our discussions.

Given that we have limited spots for this one-day event, we are asking all participants to apply via the registration form below. We will notify you when you have been selected to participate.