…A critique of individualist ‘rational economic man’ that redraws the object of economics as social, adaptable humans Moving from equilibrium economics to complex adaptive systems Forget Kuznets: growth won’t lead…
Economics for People: check out this free online lecture series from Ha-Joon Chang
…lasts between 25 and 50 minutes, covering an amazing range of topics: Episode 1a – The Nature of Economics Episode 1b – Five Reasons Why Economics is Political Episode 2 – What is…
Book Review: The Economics of Poverty by Martin Ravallion
Oxfam inequality number cruncher Deborah Hardoon reviews The Economics of Poverty by Martin Ravallion. It’s hard to think of a better placed individual than Martin Ravallion to have written this…
The doughnut is on a roll: where next for doughnut economics?
Kate Raworth, Oxfam research colleague and host of the new ‘doughnut economics’ blog, updates us on her big idea, prior to Rio+20 My Oxfam discussion paper on social and planetary…
Complexity Economics, Evolution and How Change Happens
…on option 3). He says of economics ‘The dream of a clockwork universe ended for science in the twentieth century, and is ending for economics in the twenty-first.…. We may…
The Randomistas just won the Nobel Economics prize. Here’s why RCTs aren’t a magic bullet.
…Yesterday, three of the leading ‘Randomistas’ won the Nobel economics prize (before the pedants jump in, strictly speaking it’s the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred…
Unpacking India’s historic new Food Security law
…enrolled in private schools, migrant workers, homeless and destitute people. By not including pulses and edible oils in the PDS, the Act fails to provide a good nutritional balance. Another…
Land grabs: what's in the contracts? And an Indian land grab in Ethiopia
…be 20,000 hectares of oil palm, 15,000 hectares of sugar cane and 40,000 hectares of rice, edible oils and maize and cotton. We are building reservoirs, dykes, roads, towns of…
Which book should I review next? You decide please!
…and shocked by the extraordinary gaps he witnessed between people. Economics in America explains in clear terms how the field of economics addresses the most pressing issues of our time—from…
Sociology v Economics: handy translation guide
…From a 1990 ‘Economics to Sociology Phrasebook‘ by two baffled economics students. It shows its age, but wears well, which is as much as any of us can aspire to….
Is the IMF Dismantling Trickle Down Economics?
…a new report, the IMF effectively drives the final nail into the coffin of trickle-down economics. The top finding, in their words, is that “if the income share of the…
Nicholas Stern’s new paper on Climate Change: 8/10 on economics; 3/10 for politics (and the science is pretty questionable, as well)
…Global Deal on Climate Change. His university, the London School of Economics, has just set up the ‘Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment‘ (which will inevitably be…