Economics

Eleven (mostly) green alternatives to capitalism examined under the hard light of biophysical economics. Do any pass muster? Click and see.

Economic inequality is a growing problem that affects millions, and more likely billions, of people around the world. Although some 

Over the last two decades, as public concerns have grown about climate change some high-profile activists have concluded that more

Could Kant’s categorical imperative reduce or even reverse the tendency of conventional economics to produce extremely selfish and greedy human beings?

Putin’s war in Ukraine wars somewhere, anywhere sanctions on Russia lack of access to Russian oil and gas trade war

In an interesting Guardian piece about how rightwing newspapers like the Daily Mail and Telegraph had helped Liz Truss to

I once did some work for the London think-tank Demos in the late 1990s and I remember that they had

We watched the Social Dilemma a couple of nights ago. Very fascinating and intriguing. It illustrates, inter alia, how societies

The electoral process is flawed but probably for very different reasons than you might think! What is really flawed is

Is there a collective reality of god or is it all just personal and individual? I am interested to know

One reading of de Mandeville’s grumbling hive is that he was criticising hypocrisy. One could make an argument I think

This is the IMF fossil fuel subsidies report: Global fossil fuel subsidies remain large: an update based on country-level estimates.

Renewable electricity prices will have to come down for a while (a decade or two?), possibly to very low levels,

A lot of people seem to think that fracking has ended the global oil crisis and regional gas situation, but

Speaking of working less, there was a recent report that suggested that people would have to cut their working hours

In response to the following article: https://www.economist.com/international/2019/05/25/how-climate-change-can-fuel-wars We’ve hardly started on the road to a very hot world. I have not

Tell me how the glass is half full? Personally, i would rather the glass were half full, or indeed completely