Why “Green Growth” Is an Illusion
Wishful thinking and tinkering like “green growth” won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
Read more...Wishful thinking and tinkering like “green growth” won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
Read more...What the G20 and OPEC meetings mean for the political relations, economies, and people of the world.
Read more...A short discussion of why economists’ efforts to model the impact of Brexit leave a lot to be desired.
Read more...America’s falling life expectancy is a symptom of rising social distress.
Read more...Yet more official climate change denialism…
Read more...Bronze Age societies forgave agricultural debt to keep cultivators working on their land, able to pay taxes and work in the military and on public projects. Lenders were seen as greedy and exploitative.
Read more...Why the worries about the US budget deficit and China buying Treasuries are overblown.
Read more...Some emerging-market economies look wobbly. How likely are we to see more crises?
Read more...Trump’s “progress” in gutting environmental protections.
Read more...nstead of rewarding the taxpayers and employees who actually create value for the tech giant, Apple is doling out massive stock buybacks
Read more...What role did the state of the economy likely play in the midterm results?
Read more...Rising rental costs put a spotlight on how it is even harder than ever for ordinary workers to get by.
Read more...If private cryptocurrencies were to find widespread economic use, either coexisting with or fully displacing fiat money, the result would be increased financial instability, inequality, and social instability.
Read more...Consumer debt continues to grind upwards.
Read more...Rumors of Brexit progress seem to be greatly exaggerated.
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