Can the economy keep growing and growing? What influence do pandemics, war, energy transition & Co have on the future of the economy? In recent decades, our industry has become highly globalized and more and more companies are operating in more and more countries.

Products can be purchased and produced all over the world and companies operate wherever the best conditions prevail – but numerous recent events have already shown us how fragile the global and national economy is.

Above all, wars, the Corona pandemic and the energy and climate crises are constantly presenting us as a society and the economy with new challenges.

How war, pandemic and the question of energy supply influence the future of the economy

Hoarding purchases, shortages of goods and blackout scenarios are just a few examples of how massively wars, pandemics and energy crises can shake up our economy and our society.

If we want to continue to survive in the face of these challenges, the economy must make it its goal to reinvent itself and push for creative solutions. Keywords in this context are research, development, innovation, education and further qualification.

More and more, better and better – Does constant growth make sense?

Material goods are indispensable for our lives – e.g. food or housing – and are thus essential for our physiological and also our psychological well-being, but what happens if, despite all our efforts, there is not enough left for the majority of people at the end of the day?

Can the idea and expectation of perpetual progress or economic growth and more output alone be enough to ensure prosperity in our society, or do we need to fundamentally rethink our perspective on this?

Future trends: Economy

Never before has performance, prosperity and thus global income been so unequally distributed as is the case today. The finite nature of our resources is driving us further and further to the edge of the available and feasible options for action – what is needed, therefore, are timely and, above all, new process, production and consumption structures.

Framework conditions, goals and ideas must be redefined in view of the coming challenges so that the economy can be organized in a way that is both environmentally compatible and socially and economically stable in the future.

The dawn of a new economy

Pandemics, war and energy crises do not trigger a complete upheaval of the economy, but they are harbingers of a new era: innovative and forward-looking solution concepts are therefore needed to prepare us as consumers and as producers for the challenges of the future of our economy.

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