The economist is to head the “Center for Social-Ecological Transformation” at the DIW.
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Berlin Maja Göpel is many things. Wikipedia identifies the 46-year-old as a “political economist, transformation researcher, sustainability expert and social scientist”. Göpel is in demand in all these roles, on radio and television she swears by the population to the transformation of the economy, to climate protection, to sustainability.
She did this until the summer of 2021 at the newly founded Hamburg “The New Institute”. Like Göpel, this think tank brings together different disciplines, from philosophy to natural sciences to economics.
According to Handelsblatt information, Göpel is now to bring this comprehensive approach to the venerable German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. DIW President Marcel Fratzscher is working flat out to set up a “Center for Social-Ecological Transformation” at the institute. “Previous causal relationships are changing fundamentally, social polarization is increasing, and traditional economic and social policy must adapt,” says an internal draft concept.
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