What is Economics? Part 1/3
I remember well my first economics class: we dived straight in and learned to derive supply and demand curves. Then I became so immersed in trying to get my head around the different definitions of…
Who’s looking beyond growth?
Does economic growth have a place in the future of high-income countries? This hotly debated question covers many different debates, each with arguments to be taken seriously on both sides. There’s a long history to…
Welcome to the Doughnut Dialogues
For all the high-powered roundtables that were held in Davos last week, here’s one roundtable that couldn’t be found there – but should have been. Imagine a company’s top executives sitting down around this table…
New video from The RSA on Doughnut Economics
The RSA have just put out a really nicely produced video of a talk I gave there recently on why we need a new paradigm for economic thinking in the 21st century – or why…
Who’s putting pressure on the planet?
There’s no doubt that this planet is under pressure – but where is that pressure coming from? Who or what has driven three planetary boundaries to be breached, and caused the stress to be rising…
Can we square the circle of “green growth”?
If you like trying to fit square pegs in round holes, you’ll love this little challenge. Can we (that’s humanity I’m talking about) figure out how to use Earth’s resources sustainably while ending poverty and…
Getting Better or Getting Hotter?
The UK’s new Secretary of State for International Development, Justine Greening, must be on a steep learning curve in deciding how to take forward the UK’s approach to tackling global poverty. Word has it that staff…
The Economic Vandal Strikes Back
I recently ruined an economist’s morning lie-in, and for that much I am sorry. Over at aidthoughts.org, Matt Collin read my blogpost on vandalizing economics textbooks and he got very annoyed. Why? Because I shared…
Why it’s time to vandalize the economic textbooks
Get ready to join the world’s first guerrilla campaign to rewrite economics. The only weapon you need is a pencil…here’s why. When I studied economics at university twenty years ago, the concept of The Circular…
Want to know how to get beyond GDP? Start here.
Everyone agrees: we have to get beyond GDP. Yes, yes, but enough talk – let’s get this train moving. Some say we should forget GDP and jump straight to measuring well-being. I agree well-being measures…