Economic policy wrapped up 2022
As 2022 closes, we look back at some of the most important and interesting economic policy developments from Europe and the world.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed the course of the year 2022. In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro invites Maria Demertzis, André Sapir and Jeromin Zettelmeyer to unfold the impact of the war, energy crisis and inflation, European responses to these incidents, continued confrontations on the global stage and their implications on the world.
Following Bruegel’s end-of-year tradition, the guests also each introduce a book, movie or TV series that resonated with them in 2022.
Publications mentioned in the podcast:
- National fiscal policy responses to the energy crisis, Dataset by Giovanni Sgaravatti, Simone Tagliapietra and Georg Zachmann
- The European Commission's fiscal rules proposal: a bold plan with flaws that can be fixed, Blog by Olivier Blanchard, André Sapir and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
- Is the EU fiscal rules reform going in the right direction? Podcast with Grégory Claeys, Zsolt Darvas, Maria Demertzis and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
- Rewriting the rulebook of the EU fiscal framework, Event with Carlos Cuerpo, Karolina Ekholm, Vitor Gaspar, Alenka Jerkič, Maarten Verwey and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
Santa’s book/movie/series list
- Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK, book by Simon Kuper
- How to Be Animal, A new history of what it means to be human, book by Melanie Challenger
- Nights of Plague, book by Orhan Pamuk
- The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK, FT Film
- The Swimmers, film directed by Sally El Hosaini
- This England, TV series directed by Michael Winterbottom, Julian Jarrold, Anthony Wilcox and Mat Whitecross
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