Posts Tagged ‘environment’
Environmentalism of the rich
11 Dec 2016My latest book review for the Financial Times was published on 2 December. For anyone who sees environmentalism as a radical outlook, its adoption by business must be bewildering. The examples are legion. From the World Wildlife Fund credit card from Bank of America to Conservation International’s partnership with McDonald’s to promote Happy Meals; and […]
- Tags: book, economics, environment, inequality, media appearances
Berlin debate audio online
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13 Apr 2016The audio recording of my Berlin Salon debate on “Do we need economic growth?” is now online. It turned out to be a fiery exchange in places.
Ecomodernism critique on spiked
2 Mar 2016Spiked has published an article by me critiquing “progressive” environmentalism. I will upload the full text at a later date but in the meantime it is available here.
- Tags: economics, environment, Malthus, spiked, sustainability
Zurich Salon debate in January
6 Dec 2015I will be debating “are greens the friends or the enemies of progress?” at the Zurich Salon on the evening of Tuesday 19 January. The other speakers are Thomas Vellacott (CEO of WWF Switzerland), Silvio Borner (professor of economics) and Stephen Tindale (director of the Alvin Weinberg Foundation). It will be chaired by Sabine Beppler-Spahl […]
- Tags: environment, progress, speeches
Multimedia links
10 Jul 2015The debate on social justice I participated in this week at the City of London Festival is now available to listen to as a podcast. It is also appropriately topical that my debate on European austerity from last year’s Battle of Ideas is now available to watch on video.
- Tags: development, environment, Europe, inequality, radio, speeches, television, Worldwrite
The hype around Uber is overdone
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5 Jan 2015The last thing I expected to be thinking about after a long and boozy Christmas lunch was economics. However, my first ride in an Uber taxi set me thinking. For those who have not used Uber, which operates in over 50 countries, it is service that allows users to order taxis using their mobile phone. […]
- Tags: environment, finance, Fund Strategy, technology
The tame inequality debate
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3 Nov 2014The extent to which inequality has come to be blamed for most of the world’s economic problems is astounding. Will Hutton, principal of Hertford College, Oxford, summed up the charges in an Observer article earlier this year: “It’s inequality that is behind poverty, ill health and the growth of the welfare bill. It’s inequality propelling the […]
- Tags: book, environment, Fund Strategy, inequality
The real meaning of GDP
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7 Aug 2013This is my Perspective column from this week’s Fund Strategy magazine. Although GDP is central to much economic and financial debate, it is remarkably poorly understood. Experts pore over every statistical release and every subsequent revision but rarely question the meaning of the measure itself. This one-sidedness was clear in the recent preliminary estimate for […]
- Tags: economics, environment, finance, Fund Strategy, inequality
New Internationalist growth debate
27 Apr 2013Economist and author Dan O’Neill and journalist and author Daniel Ben-Ami go head-to-head. This debate is from the May issue of New Internationalist. Feel free to comment on the magazine’s site. Dan Kenneth Boulding once warned that anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an […]
- Tags: economics, environment, growth, Malthus, media appearances
My latest Guardian comment article
16 Mar 2013One of the most peculiar but least understood developments of our time is the emergence of billionaires against capitalism. Even some of the greatest beneficiaries of the market system seem deeply disillusioned with it. Bill Gates provided a striking example this week when he slated the market for distorting important priorities. He reportedly told a […]
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