In the next few years, the Parisian region is supposed to experience significant changes and events. One…
Category: Social
Economics Week III: Doughnut Economics – a way to rethink our economic model
This article is part of the Economics Week series in which we explore flaws in and alternatives to our current economic system. One of the most important figures in economics and politics to this day is the GDP growth. We often hear politicians say that a country’s GDP needs to grow for the society to…
Economics Week II: Thinking about a post-growth economy – quality instead of quantity
This article is part of the Economics Week series in which we explore flaws in and alternatives to our current economic system. Now more than ever we are facing a choice. We can either continue to operate within a system that keeps exploiting human and natural resources, thus inevitably leading to social upheaval and environmental…
Economics Week I: So what’s utility?
This article is part of the Economics Week series in which we explore flaws in and alternatives to our current economic system. The goal of economics is to improve the living conditions of people (Mankiw 2019). Hence, economics should focus on increasing human prosperity rather than simply increasing material consumption. Of course, material wealth strongly…
Local Hackathons on Social Rights
The following article is an excerpt from our latest printed Ecosprinter titled Reclaim Your Rights! – The Social Issue. We decided to bring you the articles from this edition in a digital form as well. HOLD YOUR HACKATHON ON SOCIAL RIGHTS This guide has been created for those who wish to organise their own local…
Tragic Story of the 21st. century: Evictions in Serbia
The following article is an excerpt from our latest printed Ecosprinter titled Reclaim Your Rights! – The Social Issue. We decided to bring you the articles from this edition in a digital form as well. by Jelena Aleksic People have divided thoughts about communism in Yugoslavia. Some will say that it was the worst regime…
The Rights of the Self-Employed: A Principle Challenge for the Trade Union Movement
The following article is an excerpt from our latest printed Ecosprinter titled Reclaim Your Rights! – The Social Issue. We decided to bring you the articles from this edition in a digital form as well. by Dr. Sam Murray We as Greens strive for wide-ranging legislative social and welfare packages to ensure that climate justice…
Europe’s Housing Crisis: What Can We Learn From the Vienna Model?
The following article is an excerpt from our latest printed Ecosprinter titled Reclaim Your Rights! – The Social Issue. We decided to bring you the articles from this edition in a digital form as well. by Adelina Stuparu, Sean Currie, and Anna de Koster In the 2019 EU elections, a surge in the number of…
Why pay to work ?
Young, wild and free… But many would like to become young professionals, and it is definitely not easy to gain experience. Doing an internship is often a necessity. However, many internships, even after obtaining a high university degree, are unpaid and without a legal framework, at least in Belgium. And this is a problem: after…
Migration (on) stage
At the end of the 19th century, the industrialization had created an economic system determining a lifestyle in which we excessively use and discard goods and services, i.e. this consumer society in which we still live. With this industrial revolution, the gap increased between the activities related to the material processing – the useful ones…