Sustainable economics
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Emanuele Campiglio - Towards an Ecological Macroeconomics
A new wave of economic research is expanding macroeconomic theory to take into account both environmental limits and the financial system. A couple of weeks ago I attended the International conference on Ecological Economics , held in Rio de Janeiro just a few days before the Rio+20 UN Summit, where a few hundreds researchers have been presenting their work together with some high-level keynote speakers (Peter Victor, Mathis Wackernagel, William Rees, the Prime Minister of Bhutan, Ignacy Sachs and others). One of the most debated topics during sessions and informal discussions seemed to be the one nef has been intensively working on lately, that is Ecological Macroeconomics (otherwise termed Macroeconomics of sustainability).
What's all the fuzz about money?
Chiang Mai, Thailand - In response to the 2008 global meltdown, there are really two arguments for what needs to happen next. One is fairly straightforward: We need to change the financial system through which money flows - though of course, the debate is on what precisely needs to be changed. But there is a more fundamental debate growing throughout the world of autonomous media and its productive publics: What if money itself needed to be changed? This is not a debate about the financial system per se, but actually an argument about the intrinsic "design" of money. But, isn't money just money?Capitalism and the Common Good | Living Economies Forum
By David Korten PDF Format Audio as produced and broadcast by Alternative Radio Inaugural Lecture, The Wayne Morse Center For Law And Politics 2011-2013 Inquiry on the theme “From Wall Street to Main Street: Capitalism and the Common Good,” University Of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, October 5, 2011
Vid avgrundens Rand
Ayn Rand är en osannolik figur ur högerns spökgarderob. I decennier sågs hon som en politisk sektledare. I dag älskas hennes böcker av republikaner i USA och centerpartister i Sverige.
'Perpetual Growth Myth' Leading World to Meltdown: Experts
"The current system is broken," says Bob Watson, the UK’s chief scientific advisor on environmental issues and a winner of the prestigious Blue Planet prize in 2010. "It is driving humanity to a future that is 3-5°C warmer than our species has ever known, and is eliminating the ecology that we depend on for our health, wealth and senses of self." Smoke billows from burned trees. A collective of scientists and development thinkers have warned that civilisation faces an 'unprecedented emergency'. (Photograph: CRISTINA QUICKLER/AFP/Getty Images) "We cannot assume that technological fixes will come fast enough. Instead we need human solutions.Svenska nationalekonomer måste lyssna på naturvetare - Artikel av Niclas Ihrén
Niclas Ihrén är strategichef på konsultföretaget Respect, som arbetar med strategier för hållbar utveckling i samarbete med näringsliv, kommuner och myndigheter. Han är en av Sveriges mest anlitade rådgivare inom CSR-frågor. Han har forskarbakgrund inom hållbara energisystem och har också arbetat tillsammans med flera tankesmedjor kring hållbarhetsfrågor, bland annat Global Utmaning och Tällberg Foundation. I Dagens Industri (1/6) ger Finanspolitiska rådet svar på kritik från Naturvårdsverket kring behovet av att lyfta in miljöfrågor och klimatfrågor i deras analyser av långsiktiga effekter på svensk ekonomi.
Problemet är att miljörörelsen sitter och diskuterar klimatförändringar som inte finns. Det är bättre att diskutera utarmning och utrotning som finns. USA gör rätt i att inte betala kalaset. Det är klart att feststämningen sjunker när pengarna tryter. Miljörörelsen borde diskutera: Fiskarnas utrotning Människornas ohämmade tillväxt. Regnskogens utrotning
Media lyssnar mer på ekonomer än på naturvetare - Artikel av Anders Wijkman
A prophet, says the Bible, is not without honor save in his own country. As the most prestigious economic dissenters of this era, Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman form a category of two: astonishingly prescient, widely read, and largely ignored by those in power. Both won Nobel Prizes for their early virtuoso technical economic work.
Our Most Widely Ignored Public Intellectuals
How Americans view wealth and inequality
20 August 2012 Last updated at 00:19 ET Viewpoint by Dan Ariely Professor of behavioural economics, Duke University, USA Americans do not understand how wealth is distributed in their society There have been lots of questions and discussions recently about inequality and economists often argue about what is the right level of inequality to have in society. But Mike Norton, professor at Harvard Business School, and I decided to take a different path and we decided to ask people what inequality they would want. Now, there are lots of ways to ask this question and we used the philosopher John Rawls. Rawls said that "a just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place".John Maynard Keynes predicted that technological unemployment would present problems for 21st century economies. Photograph: Corbis As people in the developed world wonder how their countries will return to full employment after the global recession, it might benefit us to take a look at a visionary essay that John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1930, called Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (pdf) . Keynes's General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money , published in 1936, equipped governments with the intellectual tools to counter the unemployment caused by slumps. In this earlier essay, however, Keynes distinguished between unemployment caused by temporary economic breakdowns and what he called "technological unemployment" – that is, "unemployment due to the discovery of means of economising the use of labour outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labour". Keynes reckoned that we would hear much more about this kind of unemployment in the future.
Return to capitalism 'red in tooth and claw' spells economic madness | Robert Skidelsky | Business
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Agenda for a New Economy: 2nd edition : YES! Magazine, Supporting you in building a just and sustainable world
Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth David C. Korten Paperback, 2nd Edition, August 2010, 288 pagesTransparence
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”Koll på cashen”. Det är det käcka namnet på ett utbildningsprojekt som ett antal myndigheter har startat för att öka gymnasieungdomars kunskap om ekonomi. En förhoppning är att minska antalet kids som travar ut i livet som nybakade sms-låneslavar. Men frågan är om inte behovet av elementär cashkunskap är ännu mer skriande i vuxenvärlden. De senaste åren har folkvalda i Europa tvingats lära sig bokstavskombinationer som CDS, ESM, EFSF och CDO.