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Éloi Laurent

Éloi Laurent is a senior research fellow at OFCE, the Centre for Economic Research at Sciences Po in Paris, professor at the School of Management and Innovation there and visiting professor at Stanford University. He is the author most recently of The New Environmental Economics: Sustainability and Justice (Polity Press).

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The French unwilling willingness

Éloi Laurent 11th April 2022

The renewed polarisation between Macron and Le Pen in the presidential election conceals a pas de deux.

The four worlds of the social-ecological state

Éloi Laurent 30th April 2020

The coronavirus crisis highlights the need to update the European welfare state to a social-ecological state, able to socialise 21st-century ecological risks.

Reimagining a just transition

Éloi Laurent 2nd December 2019

Éloi Laurent opens a Social Europe series on the ‘just transition’ by framing it in the context of the social-ecological state.

A Green New Deal beyond growth

Éloi Laurent 8th October 2019

A genuine European Green New Deal must place social justice and ecological protection ahead of fiscal discipline and economic growth.

From the ‘yellow vests’ to the social-ecological state

Éloi Laurent 30th January 2019

The concept of the social-ecological state can inspire a new social policy to tackle the twin crises of inequality and environment. The revolt of the gilets jaunes is the first social-ecological crisis of contemporary France and one of the first in Europe. It was triggered by the major issue—too long eluded in the country of […]

Growth Is Back! So What?

Éloi Laurent 25th January 2018

Reports of the death of growth have been greatly exaggerated. As the IMF noted last month, the world enjoyed in 2017 the “broadest cyclical upswing since the start of the decade”. In other words, after ten years of real downturns, false starts and speculations on “secular stagnation”, a genuine global recovery has finally materialized. The […]

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