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The Green Economy – a Luxury That Only the Developed World Can Afford?
Source: ecoscene-blog.blogspot.hk One of the most common misconceptions about the green economy is that there is an inescapable trade-off between environmental sustainability and economic...
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China – A Race for Resources
Source: FastCo ”It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice”. One of Deng Xiaoping’s most well known maxims still seems to describe Chinese policy-making; in particular, how...
View ArticleSustainability and Profit: From Trade-Off to Essence
Economic paradigms come and go. The seemingly endless debate between neo-liberals and –Keynesians in the past century provides a fascinating account of this. It shows that there must be words in...
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Changing Metrics – Is Replacing Our Economic Indicators Enough?
Source: Studentreporter As our societies develop and evolve, the question of measuring progress through different metrics has gained a more prominent place. Simple measures, such as the Gross Domestic...
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Reality Bites: Is the Era of Assumptions Coming to an End for Economists?
Source: Getty Images DSGE, IS/LM, OLG. If you are a follower of the dismal science, or have come across any news regarding economic modelling, these terms will be somewhat familiar to you. To the...
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Financial Regulation: Oops, We Did It Again
At a Wall Street Journal conference in 2009, then White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel stated that one should never let a crisis go to waste. In this sense, the 2008 financial crisis is just like...
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Return of the Luddites – The Changing Nature of Work
“The economy, stupid,” was the quote hanging at President Bill Clinton’s Little Rock 1992 campaign headquarters. Although the quote has gone through many incarnations in the past decades, it really...
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Eurozone 2.0: A Tentative Roadmap
The Open Forum panel on the Eurozone started with an expression of optimism and relief. Despite recent drawbacks, the Eurozone is out of the emergency room after years of trials and tribulations. While...
View ArticleThe Path Not Taken: Following Unconventional Wisdom in Economics
Student Reporter Adam Wong interviewed Dr. Steve Keen, Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Western Sydney, on his new but controversial economic ideas in sustainability and economic...
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21st Century Robin Hood Introduces Altruism to Investment Banking
Robin Hood Asset Management CooperativeSakari Virkki, researcher and inventor of the competence analysis methodology used by Robin Hood For more than a decade, Finnish researcher Sakari Virkki...
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