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I am Stanislas Jourdan, an economist and macroeconomics policy advocate. Affiliated with the Sustainable Finance Lab and the New Economics Foundation, I work at the intersection of academic community, civil society, policymakers and markets participants. From 2018 to 2023, I was the director of the European nonprofit organisation Positive Money Europe. My goal? Transforming our macroeconomic and financial system to align it with the climate emergency, social justice and democratic imperatives.
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Latest analysis
- France shows social leasing is the way forward
Low-income households are the most exposed to energy price shocks and the least able to access technologies that would protect them. A social lease turns the financing equation around. - French parliament endorses civil society recommendations on ECB climate policies
The report provides unambiguous, transpartisan political support for the ECB’s involvement on climate change. - The EU’s Housing Problem Isn’t Supply. It’s Finance
If the EU continues to ignore how unlimited bank credit inflates the cost of housing, it will fail to address the housing affordability crisis. - Hiking Rates in an Energy Crisis: A Cure Worse Than the Disease?
A review of the literature on how central banks should respond to energy price shocks. - Why Europe Must Rethink Central Bank Independence
While the the populist far-right seek to capture central banks, progressives should aim to reconcile central banks’ mandates with societal priorities.
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