Posts Tagged ‘Malthus’
Hütet euch vor Grünen im progressiven Gewand
15 May 2016Novo has published a German translation of my spiked article on “beware of greens in progressive clothing”. Die Umweltbewegung hat ein düsteres Menschenbild. Sie bevorzugt die unberührte Natur gegenüber dem menschlichen Leben. Kein Versuch, die Tatsachen zu verdrehen, wird davon ablenken können. Man kann das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch und Natur auf zwei grundsätzlich verschiedene Weisen […]
- Tags: economics, Germany, Malthus, sustainability
„Nachhaltigkeit bremst Wachstum“
17 Apr 2016This is a text (in German) of a recent interview with me from Novo magazin on economic growth. It was conducted by Marco Visscher. The original longer version appeared in Dutch in Oneworld magazine. The headline can be translated as “sustainability hinders growth”. Mehr Wirtschaftswachstum ist nötig, um die Lebensbedingungen der Menschen zu verbessern, besonders […]
- Tags: economics, Germany, growth, inequality, Malthus, 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
China challenge not demographic
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11 May 2015One of the biggest economic questions of the decade is undoubtedly whether China will succeed in changing its development model. Since the late 1970s the Asian giant has enjoyed spectacular success in transforming itself from a poor rural economy to a dynamic industrial power. The time has come to shift the balance even further towards […]
- Tags: Asia, Austerity Watch, economics, Fund Strategy, Malthus
Population debate on 16 July
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26 Jun 2014I will be participating in a debate on the Global 10 billion – something to celebrate? at the Mantownhuman summer in London at 12.30am on 16 July. The other panelists will be Danny Dorling (a professor of geography at Oxford university) and Philippe Legrain (the author of Immigrants: your country needs them).
A hi-tech Malthusianism
13 Apr 2014My review of Tyler Cowen’s Average Is Over: Powering America beyond the age of the Great Stagnation (Dutton) was published on the spiked review of books on Friday. Suppose you go on a date and are faced with that perennially tricky question: does the other person fancy me? The answer is not always easy to […]
- Tags: book, Malthus, review, spiked, technology
Stop blaming your parents
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9 Dec 2013One of the worst habits of the current generation of younger adults is to blame their older peers for many economic and social problems. Such scapegoating is understandable in those in an awkward teenage phase but anyone over 20 should have grown out of it. Take the discussion of household debt. It is often framed […]
- Tags: economics, Fund Strategy, Malthus
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
Appearance on BBC1 Big Questions
7 Apr 2013My appearance on this morning’s BBC1 Big Questions programme is available to watch on iPlayer for the next week. The three topics were whether it was right to take from the rich to give to the poor; should we “go forth and multiply” and whether the Grand National horse race should be banned. Probably the […]
- Tags: economics, inequality, Malthus, media appearances
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