Archive for the ‘National economy’ Category
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Climate sceptic U-turns and calls for Carbon Emissions Tax
Well-known economist climate critic Bjørn Lomborg - the self styled “sceptical environmentalist”- is calling for massive investment into climate change measures.
To fund them he is suggesting a tax on carbon emissions in his latest book Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
Says Bjørn, quoted in the Guardian,
“The point I’ve always been making is [...] -
The problem with modern economists: they are devoid of accountability
This extract is taken from the discussion paper. Download the publication here An-economic-paradigm-for-stable-sustainable-development
Every financial expense is also a financial income and every financial debt is also a financial asset, by definition. Say’s Law for a monetary economy is based on these obvious facts. The essence of Say’s Law is that the expenses for the production [...] -
New publications from the Foundation
An economic paradigm for stable, sustainable, development by Anders Höglund
This discussion paper presents Höglund’s Interest rate rule: a new paradigm within the field of macroeconomics. It suggests practical methods to maintain an optimally strong, environmentally compliant and genuinely sustainable, employment-conducive demand in the economy.
Download the publication here An-economic-paradigm-for-stable-sustainable-development
Swedish version ett-ekonomiskt-paradigm-for-stabil-hallbar-utveckling -
We overshot on the 21 August
If your year’s salary was used up nine months into the year, and you were forced to live on savings and use up assets, you would rightly be criticised for not keeping control of your economy. That is, however, precisely what we are doing.
Humanity has demanded all the ecological services – from filtering CO2 [...] -
10 common sense principles for the new economy
David Korten is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, president of the People-Centered Development Forum, and a founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies(BALLE).
Following the publication of his book,
Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, he has formulated these ten common sense principles [...] -
Swedish right-wing newspaper criticises Gross National Product (GNP) forecasting
Yesterday, the Swedish National Institute of Economic Research issued a forecast of growth of 3.7% to 2012. In a manner rather atypical for the newspaper, SVD today slams into the Institute with an article heavily criticising them for measuring the wrong things. “They measure the trees but forget to assess the woods” says reporter Jacob [...]
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The world is on the cusp of an economic collapse
One highlight of the recent Transition Network conference in Devon was the talk by Stoneleigh called ” Making Sense of the Financial Crisis in the Era of Peak Oil”, which you can hear in full here. Stoneleigh is one of two editors of the ‘Automatic Earth’ blog, and her talk was stark. [...]
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It could happen here: is the US showing the same precursors of collapse as the the Soviet Union did?
Not many saw the fall of the Berlin wall coming. Not many foresaw the collapse of the Soviet Union. And so gleeful were the celebrations of the triumph of liberalism and capitalism over communism that few bothered to study what actually happened and why.
Yale School of Management senior faculty fellow Bruce Judson makes the [...] -
New Economics Foundation calls for banking reform
At the end of April, the British think tank, nef (the new economics foundation) launched its manifesto on banking. This Manifesto calls for root and branch reform to control the banks and re-building the system in which they operate.
Nef calls for a credible plan to re-engineer the financial system so that it becomes [...] -
The European Journalism Centre questions our current paradigm of money
Billed as “an international conference on the role of the media in the financial crisis” - the European Journalism Center invited Bernard A. Lietaer, Research Fellow, University of California to present his ideas in money systems. He asks why journalists do not question the monopoly on bank debt money. This system he likens this [...]