Europe Calling #183 “(In-) justice and populism"

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Our guests were:

Professor Ulrike Malmendier has been a member of the German government’s Council of Economic Experts (the so-called “Wirtschaftsweisen”) since 2022 and is Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. As a behavioural economist, she is particularly interested in human behaviour in economic situations.

Eric Protzer is a researcher at the Harvard Growth Lab at Harvard University, USA. In his much-discussed book “Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters”, he argues that it is not the inequality in outcomes that drives people to populism, but the inequality of opportunity to advance socially and economically

Xan López is a climate activist, one of the editors of the magazine Corriente Cálida (“Warm Stream”) and informal advisor for the progressive electoral coalition SUMAR in Spain. Together with the social democratic PSOE, SUMAR forms the current Spanish government with SUMAR leader Yolanda Díaz as Second Deputy Prime Minister.

Rasmus Andresen is a German MEP and spokesperson for the German Greens in the European Parliament. In the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Committee on Budgets, he campaigns for greater fairness in the economy and in tax matters, among other things.

Moderation: Maximilian Fries, Managing Director of Europe Calling e.V.

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More information here: https://europe-calling.de/en/webinar/economic-justice-right-wing-extremism/

Video: https://youtu.be/p343xpk1LWY