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Grand plans designed to reduce reliance on oil will struggle to create an economy which helps all the Kingdom’s subjects.
Moves to measure country progress in other ways to GDP are on the rise. Here’s how happiness researchers are changing the game.
The world economy needs China, but Beijing has needs of its own. No wonder the leadership is putting so much effort into a year of negotiation.
We have all the tools to achieve economic growth and environmental sustainability - we just have to choose to use them.
A new Tory government, but true-blue business owners might be feeling short-changed.
An economic recovery underpinned by household debt is storing up problems for an ideological chancellor.
How can we live within the means of our planet? Almost all environmental literature grossly underestimates what is needed for our civilisation to become sustainable.
Investment for profit and development should lie at the heart of a solution for the imbalances in Greece and Europe.
The Liberal Democrats’ commitment to austerity will help cut the deficit, but likely come at the expense of growth.
With the most rapid deficit reduction programme, the Conservatives will struggle to achieve economic growth
Plaid’s numbers on growth add up, but their policies could end up costing the taxpayer.
Not too long ago, cynics were wondering if David Cameron’s fears over the global economy were a ploy to shift blame for any flaws in the UK’s performance as we near the May 2015 general election. However…
Heathrow’s refurbished Terminal 2 was unveiled to much fanfare earlier this year. Officially re-opened by the queen, the shiny new terminal even provided the studio for an episode of the BBC’s weekly Question…
When discussing the state of the economy, politicians deploy two key tricks. First, get your excuses in early. Second, take all the credit for any good news but blame others for any bad news. David Cameron…
Many readers of this piece will be aware that economists are rethinking the role of happiness and GDP. They question facile assumptions about economic growth alone being good for us. What’s the good of…
“But who do you think’s right, Prof? The optimists or the pessimists?” At the end of my sustainability economics course in 2007, students were challenging me to end 20 years of professional fence-sitting…
Since 1990, GDP per person in China has doubled and then redoubled. With average incomes multiplying fourfold in little more than two decades, one might expect many of the Chinese people to be dancing…
As the US economy emerges from recession, the prospect of the US Federal Reserve raising interest rates grabs the attention of the financial markets more and more. US rates have been close to zero for…
We are in a new phase of the post-crisis world. Growth is disappointing with Italy in recession, France close to it, and even Germany lagging. It is a useful reminder that recovery in a debt-overhang economy…
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