Happy birthday, Neoliberalism, and farewell.
Seventy years ago this month – in April 1947 – economists Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises and friends met in the Swiss village of Mont Pelerin to write a new economic story, and…
Spring. Renewal. Bring on Regenerative Economics.
Easter Sunday. It’s Spring, time for renewal, rebirth. There couldn’t be a better day in the year for launching the latest fabulous one-minute animation of Doughnut Economics – because this one is about regenerative economic…
Doughnut Economics is out!
It’s been quarter a century in the making – ever since the day I stepped into my first university Economics lecture back in 1990 – but Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st…
Why degrowth has outgrown its own name
Here’s what troubles me about degrowth: I just can’t bring myself to use the word. And with the help of smoke bombs, elephants and lighthouses, I can explain why. Check out the five reasons why I think…
Do you dare to doughnut in Davos?
It’s Davos time and the roundtable discussions are getting underway. So here’s the ultimate roundtable that I invite – or dare – every Davos CEO to take a seat at and tell their company’s story.…
Madonna in distress: the new planetary portrait
Mother Earth has a never-before-seen portrait now on show, thanks to three pieces of planetary-scale research published this week. Together they paint the most up-to-date image yet of our planetary home – along with the…
Why it’s time for Doughnut Economics: from TEDx Athens
Want to help rewrite economics? Then here’s the guerrilla campaign for you – set out in my newly posted TEDx Athens talk on Why it’s time for Doughnut Economics. There’s one diagram at the heart…
Don’t let the Anthropocene become the Manthropocene.
Have we have entered the Anthropocene – the planetary era that is dominated by the environmental impacts of human activity? Ironically, the scientists deciding this important question seem to have overlooked the fact that their…
Want to get into the doughnut? Tackle inequality
Humanity’s central challenge in the 21st century is to meet the human rights of all people within the capacity of Earth’s life-support systems. In other words, we need to get into the doughnut: the safe…
What century are you in? Take the Econ 101 quiz…
So, how’s the state of your Econ 101? I’m talking about those fundamental economic assumptions you took on board way back when, which are probably so comfortably settled in that you don’t notice them much any…