You can contact Bas van Bavel about the following topics:
- Interaction between the economy, society and institutions
- Society
- development
- what is a “good society” (success factors)
- relations between social groups
- resilience of societies
- different societal systems (including associations)
- Resilience
- resilience to shocks and hazards
- societal resilience and adaptation
- vulnerability
- Comprehensive wellbeing
- economic growth and wellbeing
- measuring comprehensive wellbeing
- wage development, labour share
- Economic (in)equality, distribution
- historical development of wealth distribution
- wealth distribution in the Netherlands today
- relationship between wealth distribution and power
- Market economy
- development of the market economy
- organisation of market economies
- effects of market functioning
Bas van Bavel in the media (all articles and programmes in Dutch)
Print media
- 17-04-2013 Brabants Dagblad: Scheidslijnen in samenleving worden dieper en dieper. [Divisions in society get deeper and deeper]
- 09-07-2021 Vrij Nederland: Zo kunnen gewonen mensen weer meer macht krijgen, volgens deze hoogleraar [This is how ordinairy people can regain more power, according to this professor]
- 11-04-2019, ESB: Economisch Statistische Berichten: Vervolgstappen voor integrale welvaartsmeting [Economic Statistics Reports, Subsequent steps for integral prosperity measurement]
- 19-02-2019, De Volkskrant: Eigen huis trekt vermogens scheef, maar hoe erg is dat? [Home ownership distorts assets, but is that such a bad thing?]
- 12-01-2018, Het Financieele Dagblad: Komst Trump illustreert steeds inniger band tussen vermogen en politieke macht [Arrival of Trump illustrates increasingly intimate relationship between equity and political power]
- 28-10-2016, NRC Handelsblad: Vrije markt eindigt in de ondergang [The free market is doomed]
- 15-03-2018, Book review NRC Handelsblad: Het fiasco van de vrije markt [The fiasco of the free market]
Radio and television
- 02-02-2019, Dr Kelder en Co: Doemscenario voor de vrije markt [Doom scenario for the free market]
- 06-07-2018, Het filosofisch kwintet: De groeiende ongelijkheid is een fout van ons systeem [The growing inequality is a flaw in our system]
- 01-04-2018, Buitenhof: Kloof tussen arbeid en kapitaal [Chasm between labour and capital]
- 17-02-2017, Interne Keuken (VRT Radio 1): De onzichtbare hand [The invisible hand]
- 17-12-2016, Trio (Klara/VRT): Een nieuwe kijk op markteconomie [A new perspective on the market economy]
- 13-04-2014, Buitenhof: Bas van Bavel: Rijkste 1 procent bezit bijna een kwart van alle vermogen [Bas van Bavel: Richest 1 percent own nearly a quarter of all wealth]
Online / Video
- 17-07-2018, Voor de Ommekeer TV: Bas van Bavel: Wordt economie NL net zo feodaal als VS? Historisch kantelpunt is in zicht [Bas van Bavel: Will the Dutch economy become just as feudal as the US economy? Historical tipping point is in view]