Behaviour is good
How do you measure it? Can you turn it around? ‘How?’ is becoming as important a question as how much? in investors’ regulators’ and customers’ appraisals of businesses. Deborah Hawkes …
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Sustainable development in Costa Rica: how real is it?
Costa Rica: a mirage of sustainability? A focus on sustainable development has shown some success in Costa Rica but its credibility is undermined by persistent economic inequality and widespread environmental …
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If the economy is circular, what shape is the consumer?
Whatever it looks like on the official reports, try to remember: out there it’s muddy and messy. Policy and business may appear to be moving towards greater sustainability but what …
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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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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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London is too far from Singapore
The UK government’s post Brexit aspiration for the City to challenge Singapore’s growth in offshore finance is flawed and ill-matched to growing global hostility to tax havens. John Christensen explains. …
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It ain’t what you think it’s the way that you think it
Mandela: transformed a “them and us” culture to one based on common ground. The global economic and political quandary we face today will not go away if we fail to …
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Brexit: the good, the bad and the ugly
Economists and others gathered to compare notes on Brexit. Deborah Hawkes was there. Before the election, The Mint invited members of the public to join three economists to discuss Brexit, …
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Red and expert – an insight into studying economics in China
The drag in dragon: lectures on Chinese socialism are more mind numbing than brainwashing. China’s universities revere Western economists. But the students still battle to stay awake through lectures on …
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Land locked
Money for nothing: Neoclassical economics leaves windfalls from land ownership largely overlooked. As the value of land swells, generations in the UK who didn’t catch the tide of house ownership …
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