Time to Pay Peter
It is 30 years since the Brundtland Commission published its report on Sustainable Development. This was the official response to the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth work that created …
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Do macroeconomists have morals?
Humans perceive symbols and narratives that have meanings (rather than process information). What might economists want with anthropologists? Laura Bear offers a few suggestions. As an anthropologist among the tribe …
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Unorthodox Greek
Yanis Varoufakis is a heavyweight academic economist with a rare combination of style and substance. He talks to The Mint. Economics professor, Yanis Varoufakis, describes himself as a “failed finance minister …
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Can green technologies solve our economic problems?
Despite recent cost reductions in solar panels and wind turbines, the world still gets over 85% of its energy from coal, oil and gas. Governments are intervening as they accept …
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A return to fundamentals
Hall: “Most production models of economics are not based on these biophysical laws and principles; in fact, they tend to ignore them.” For decades mainstream economics has been able to …
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A future secured
When Mohamed Omar fled the threats that came with the insurgency in Somalia, a lot came with him. The Mint heard his story. Mohamed Omar took a flight from his …
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Property Rights and Economic Development
Western European gross domestic product per capita was about twenty times larger in 2003 than it was in 1700. Geoff Hodgson questions whether greater security in property rights really did …
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Sinking in the klepto- professional reign
Capitalism needs to heal. But mounting greed among the professional classes is choking our post crash recovery. In the run up to the 2008 crisis, financial speculation was large, dominant …
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Rick Bookstaber Interview: A model agent
Mainstream economics’ failure to predict the 2008 crash undermined the profession’s public credibility. There’s a new game in town that financial risk guru, Rick Bookstaber, has faith in. He shares …
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A second brush with royalty
Professor Verity Bastion sees little cause to reflect on economic yester years and encounters a leading light in the black economy. So it looks like we are going to suffer …
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