IIER works where surprisingly few organizations are active: in the explanation and documentation of economic systems and in guiding humanity towards a safe transition to a future that is unavoidably different from the past. Ultimately, we try to scientifically explain what significant majorities in almost all advanced economies feel in their gut - that their children's generation will be economically worse off. Additionally, we provide on how this reality doesn't need to turn into a downward trend in happiness and life satisfaction.
Our key projects
These projects have the objective to help societies stay intact and are often established in collaboration with other organizations. Our core interest is to maintain or improve societal dialogue and preserve democratic systems in advanced economies, hoping that this will enable us to have a constructive dialogue about the future when the gut feeling of most people - that growth is becoming increasingly difficult - is becoming apparent and discussed openly. Our most important current projects are HowAreWe and UnTax.
HowAreWe is an initiative aimed at complementing economic metrics with measuring well-being. Mostly on a local and regional level. A successful pilot completed in Q1/2022 shows how valuable the results are, providing tangible inputs that can help make life better for many people. We are currently working on larger rollouts in Europe and the United States.
UnTax aims at changing the way society looks at non-renewable resources, as an input that can be used infinitely. Instead it aims at increasing the recognition of the finite nature of those inputs, trying to encourage a more careful use by shifting taxes away from human labor and profits and instead burdening non-renewable inputs.
What you can do?
Please start thinking about your own environment and life and join us in moving towards a better future.
