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Tag: Dec 2019

Why we should abandon GDP

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Gross Domestic Product is the most popular and useless quantity in economics say Erald Kolasi and Blair Fix. For all that it purports to say, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fails …

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Hidden in plain sight

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Alan Freeman interprets the art of deft manipulation of fact used in painting an unrealistically assuring, yet remarkably convincing picture of international inequality. In his 1997 book, The Demon-Haunted World: …

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A new steer

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Spanish farms are revitalising their land on the hoof. Sacha Bernal Coates and Kerry Wolters explain how the herd instinct holds back the desert. Manuel’s ranch is an hour’s drive …

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Saint Mark’s square roots

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An excerpt from The Venetian Files – a novel by Izaias Almada and Matheus Graselli. September 12-14, 2008: New York City, USA Hank Paulson managed to get Alistair Darling on …

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National interest

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How might a National Investment Bank serve the real UK economy? Stephany Griffith-Jones and Natalya Naqvi explain. An election pledge by the Labour Party to create a National Investment Bank …

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Climate short change

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Global warming is happening but the planning to halt it doesn’t just happen. Charles Seaford asks who? And other questions. Well-informed people the world over knew, in 1933, that something …

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The bigger picture

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A million pounds can go a long way but sometimes it can be hard to know where to turn. Louise Tickle goes to Cumbria. Two women stand in the middle of …

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The silence about violence

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Susie Steed used to teach economics to undergraduates, but she can’t bear to any longer. She tells why. I’ve been trying to describe to people why I’m no longer teaching …

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Spin Offs

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Tom Szaky started TerraCycle in high school to “end waste”. The company currently operates in 21 countries, working with some of the world’s largest retailers’ and manufacturers’ brands. In each …

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The gravity of the situation

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People risk their lives to defend an environment they, and we can thrive in, but they are also changing our global economy. Nick Meynen writes. One June morning in 2008 …

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