Many people consider capitalism the cause of climate change. Can leading thinkers in business and academia make business the primary means to tackle the climate crisis?
The sour face means the Fed must be about to raise rates.
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Back in 2001, a Goldman Sachs economist said Brazil, Russia, India and China would become the powerhouses of the global economy in the coming decades. Is that still in the cards?
Expect to see more ships on the horizon, as global shipping booms. But how well are we measuring and governing what happens at sea?
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As the world’s land-based economies struggle with around 2% GDP growth, the global marine economy – often talked about as “the blue economy” – is a bright light on the horizon.
Completed in 2009, Citi Field is the home of the New York Mets – and part of a recent wave of new ballparks.
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Summer has never truly arrived in Britain until we can enjoy those great traditional events of the season: Wimbledon, a major cricket test series, and an emergency post-election budget from George Osborne…
Happiness about a new car is relative - it depends on your expectations and on what other people have.
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While the economics of happiness has boomed, the economics of unhappiness has been neglected. Yet there are many objective sources of unhappiness that good economic research might tackle productively.
Economics isn’t brain surgery, so why is a neurosurgeon-turned-presidential candidate dismissing the latest unemployment report?
Zannoni’s 1771 Map of the British Isles shows the heart of the “civilised” world – at least according to Adam Smith when he was writing The Wealth of Nations.
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To burnish the virtues of “civilised” Europe, Adam Smith relies on a barrage of racial insults. Where did his information about the so-called “savage peoples” come from in the first place?
Imagine a radically shrunken economy with 45% of all national income reserved for the state and you’ve just scratched the surface of the Greens’ economic vision.
A fantasy about free markets in primitive society lies at the heart of Adam Smith’s wealth of nations – but did they ever exist?
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A careful study of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations reveals that its influence lies not in Smith’s ability to construct an argument – but in his skill as teller of tall tales.
When we think about income and wealth inequalities we are tempted to lay blame on the old way of doing things. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty picks out inherited money as a driver…