Limits to economic growth?

This lecture was presented at the University of Nottingham on April 4, 2017. Please click on the slides to enlarge them. On April 3 in...

Limits to Incentives

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Webinar on the work of David Fleming

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Reclaiming Commons through Land Value Tax, or a Wing and a Prayer

There are estimates which present the power of a litre of petrol as equivalent to two to three weeks of manual labour. On one...

CapGlobalCarbon and basic income: How could climate action be coupled to economic empowerment?

Note: this article assumes that you are already up-to-speed on what CapGlobalCarbon is. See here to get a quick overview, or here for a...

Specialisation and trade – David Ricardo versus Frederich List

What Schumpeter called the “Ricardian Vice” was a mode of reasoning in which the required conclusions are buried in the assumptions of an argument....

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Entrepreneurship in the social and solidarity economy

Co-operatives have been described as freshwater fish in a saltwater environment. In the 1930s, the co-operative sector in many countries was very powerful but...

The Music of Narcissus

by Patrick Noble A fiddle and a cello weave in counterpoint. The fiddle sings of a redemptive future, while the cello evokes a scenic past....

Journey to Earthland: review by Mark Garavan

Journey to Earthland by Paul Raskin is an unusual work. It is not primarily an analysis of our present predicament or of our likely...

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