@pietervanhuysse
Professor of political economy & public policy, Dep. Politics; Chair, Danish Institute for Advanced Study, SDU. Political demography, aging democracies & welfare states, intergenerational fairness https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/vanhuysse
I was interviewed with Claudia Goldin, Ron Lee & others by The Financial Times on how population may transform the economy.
I pointed to the potential, not inevitability, of it leading to more #gerontonomic economies & more #gerontocratic policy models
www.ft.com/content/1527...
I was interviewed with Claudia Goldin, Ron Lee & others by The Financial Times on how population may transform the economy.
I pointed to the potential, not inevitability, of it leading to more #gerontonomic economies & more #gerontocratic policy models
www.ft.com/content/1527...
How to enact #intergenerational #fairness in EU policies?
Over 3 months, 150 European citizens gave input to the Commission. I was honored guide this process #deliberative #democracy #policy #cocreation.
This week, Glenn Micallef will present the new strategy
citizens.ec.europa.eu/european-cit...
How to enact #intergenerational #fairness in EU policies?
Over 3 months, 150 European citizens gave input to the Commission. I was honored guide this process #deliberative #democracy #policy #cocreation.
This week, Glenn Micallef will present the new strategy
citizens.ec.europa.eu/european-cit...
The Reversal of the Flynn Effect and Protecting Cognitive Agency:" my podcast interview on #autonomy, cognitive #offloading & embracing yet another disruptive technology pushed by US/Chinese billionaires with no track record of caring for humans or the environment:
open.spotify.com/episode/74Aw...
Is it a status symbol to have many children, Heartbeats.dk asked me.
Maybe yes, maybe not. But this is a marginal niche issue. The real issue is declining population fertility & rising childlessness, and the large, hidden,societally undervalued cost of parenting
heartbeats.dk/er-det-bleve...
The Norwegian government's Birth Rate Commission has handed its report to Minister of Children & Families Lene Vågslid. The report highlights our 'Taxing #Reproduction' research.
Norwegian report:
www.regjeringen.no/en/documents...
'Taxing Reproduction':
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
The Reversal of the Flynn Effect and Protecting Cognitive Agency:" my podcast interview on #autonomy, cognitive #offloading & embracing yet another disruptive technology pushed by US/Chinese billionaires with no track record of caring for humans or the environment:
open.spotify.com/episode/74Aw...
Is it a status symbol to have many children, Heartbeats.dk asked me.
Maybe yes, maybe not. But this is a marginal niche issue. The real issue is declining population fertility & rising childlessness, and the large, hidden,societally undervalued cost of parenting
heartbeats.dk/er-det-bleve...
The Norwegian government's Birth Rate Commission has handed its report to Minister of Children & Families Lene Vågslid. The report highlights our 'Taxing #Reproduction' research.
Norwegian report:
www.regjeringen.no/en/documents...
'Taxing Reproduction':
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Between Solidarity, Fairness and Conflict. How Can We Reorganise Intergenerational Relations?
Join us today on the European Day of Demography
www.population-europe.eu/events/betwe...
The Forandringskraft 2026 conference kicks off tomorrow in Copenhagen, talks by Charles Leadbeater, Margrethe Vestager, ...
I will introduce the session on future generations: 'Bevægelsen for Fremtidens Generationer: Fra usynlige skævheder til fælles handling'
forandringskraft.dk/arrangemente...
The Forandringskraft 2026 conference kicks off tomorrow in Copenhagen, talks by Charles Leadbeater, Margrethe Vestager, ...
I will introduce the session on future generations: 'Bevægelsen for Fremtidens Generationer: Fra usynlige skævheder til fælles handling'
forandringskraft.dk/arrangemente...
Love in the time of empty cradles:
What causes widespread drops in fertility?
Join Gosta Esping-Andersen and our panel this Saturday at Word festival 2026 in Odense (Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen, Pieter Vanhuysse, Lone Schmidt, Søren Ziebe & Gøsta Esping-Andersen):
wordfestival.dk/arrangemente...
Love in the time of empty cradles:
What causes widespread drops in fertility?
Join Gosta Esping-Andersen and our panel this Saturday at Word festival 2026 in Odense (Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen, Pieter Vanhuysse, Lone Schmidt, Søren Ziebe & Gøsta Esping-Andersen):
wordfestival.dk/arrangemente...
Why are birth rates falling wide across the rich world? Are we choosing smaller families, or being shaped by biology, hidden parenting costs, or modern life?
Join me, Gosta Esping-Andersen and other panelists at the Word Festival 2026 as we address this question
wordfestival.dk/arrangemente...
Why are birth rates falling wide across the rich world? Are we choosing smaller families, or being shaped by biology, hidden parenting costs, or modern life?
Join me, Gosta Esping-Andersen and other panelists at the Word Festival 2026 as we address this question
wordfestival.dk/arrangemente...
Toward a paradigm shift for #wellbeing & #sustainability?
Final conference of EUH projects ToBe & SPES, on the interconnections between #growth, #flourishing & #sustainability.
Been a pleasure to advise with Marc Fleurbaey, Kaushik Basu, Connie Hedegaard,...
www.sustainabilityperformances.eu/about
Population Europe convened leading demographers, policymakers, and civil society representatives at the German-Italian Centre for European Dialogue, Villa Vigoni to dissect Europe's demographic challenges and to pathways to resilience and social cohesion:
www.population-europe.eu/events/event...
"“We’re sleepwalking into a dystopia that any rational person can see from miles away, ...Are we really just going to lie down and let AI take everything from us?”
...what do we get in for this systematic degradation of much of the stuff that makes life worth living?"
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
"The big tech companies like to see themselves as invested in spreading knowledge and curiosity. In fact in order to survive they must promote stupidity. ... Dumb rage and partisan thinking keep us glued to our phones."
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
on China's mixed vs America's disastrous current pathways, the overblown promise of AI & urgent need for regulatory agency & a new FDR-inspired working-class liberalism:
excellent wideranging podcast with Daron Acemoglu on liberal democracy's multiple crises
www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/how...
Ahoj Jano, hearty congrats: this is a true achievement!
Mijn interview vandaag in de podcast serie "De 7 Extra" van de zakenkrant De Tijd:
Ouders financieren grotendeels de welvaartsstaat van morgen voor iedereen door de nieuwe generatie belastingsberalers op te voeden: een publiek goed.
youtu.be/cKDTmCqMKDE?...
My interview today, together with UA colleague Karel Neels in the Belgian financial newspaper De Tijd:
'Vanhuysse ... (licht) toe wat elk beleid volgens hem onderschat: dat ouders ... grotendeels de welvaartsstaat van morgen financieren.'
www.tijd.be/dossiers/gen...
Was honored to address the ImPACT Coalition for Future Generations today.
Part of the United Nations Impact Coalitions Programme, the ImPACT Coalition for Future Generations is a global network dedicated to reimagining the United Nations for the 21st century
ourfutureagenda.org/impact-coali...
My interview today, together with UA colleague Karel Neels in the Belgian financial newspaper De Tijd:
'Vanhuysse ... (licht) toe wat elk beleid volgens hem onderschat: dat ouders ... grotendeels de welvaartsstaat van morgen financieren.'
www.tijd.be/dossiers/gen...
