
Beautiful Economics
From the publisher: A handbook for rebooting the world with a new economic narrative that combines ecological, philosophical and entrepreneurial wisdom. What if we could all become rich in Life …
Beautiful Economics Read MoreFrom Promoting Economic Pluralism
From the publisher: A handbook for rebooting the world with a new economic narrative that combines ecological, philosophical and entrepreneurial wisdom. What if we could all become rich in Life …
Beautiful Economics Read MoreFrom the publisher: A balance sheet for the planet: How we can achieve healthy growth—more regenerative than wasteful, instilling equity rather than exacerbating inequalities. In Tomorrow’s Economy, Per Espen Stoknes reframes …
Tomorrow’s Economy Read MoreSome people are more predisposed to gambling large sums, or diving off a cliff, or even starting their own business in a free-falling economy. And that tendency toward risk-taking might …
Risk‑Taking Might Be Determined by Our DNA, Finds Study Read MoreThe new coronavirus is inspiring panic buying of a variety of household products such as toilet paper in cities across the U.S. and world. While it makes sense to me …
Zero risk bias: The economics of toilet paper hoarding Read MoreWhen the world is facing large systemic crises, Ingrid Kvangraven asks why is the economics profession celebrating small technical fixes? This week it was announced that Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo …
Impoverished economics? Unpacking the economics Nobel Prize Read MoreUN Climate Change News, 12 June 2019 – W-Foundation, a global relief and conservation organization, is working with the UN’s Climate Neutral Now initiative to promote sustainability and climate action through a …
Taking Climate Action Via a Gaming App Read MoreProfessor Sugden, a renowned and celebrated pioneer of behavioural economics, has written an important book. In it he skewers the “nudge economics” fudge that maintains the illusion of the possibility …
Revealing the fudge in ‘Nudge Economics’ Read More‘Nudge economics’ has created a lot of interest and had a lot of influence most recently with a Nobel prize for Richard Thaler. Prof Robert Sugden, an eminent behavioural economist …
Challenging “Nudge Economics”: Reframing the market as a community of advantage Read MoreHarnessing human imagination could prove pivotal in convincing the world that climate change is more round-the-corner than on-the-horizon. Prashant Vaze writes. There is a scene in BBC’s Sherlock in which …
Coastlines, climate change and creativity. Read MorePublic policy attention toward behavioural insights risks focusing on individual decision-making at the cost of considering the root causes of broader societal problems. But evidence from emerging research that spans …
Behavioural insights in the age of austerity: how research on the psychology of poverty can help us to stay focused on society Read More