Research and blog by Hollie Ryan, Isadora Ferreira and Kate Raworth Many universities recognise the crucial role that they can play in raising awareness and understanding of climate change amongst their students. We wanted to…
This weekend the G20 are meeting in Argentina, with the aim (they say) of ‘building consensus for fair and sustainable development’. Since they collectively generate 85% of global GDP, whether they do or don’t transform…
An economist, a songwriter, and a puppet-maker walked into a recording studio. What do you think came out?…An economics puppet rap battle, of course. One of the most dangerous stories at the heart of 20th…
Last week at the seaside, while I was browsing in my favourite second-hand bookshop, the owner said to me “If I was going to create a shelf called ‘Change the World’, what books would you…
I spent a day at the OECD in Paris earlier this week, and had fascinating discussions there. They had asked me to be provocative so I proposed they rewrite Article 1a of the OECD’s founding…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…