Climate Crisis
Noah Smith: Why has climate economics failed us?
Economists could have helped in the fight against climate change. So far, they haven’t. Read here
Month: April 2021
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory: Expanding the corporate capture of research: the new EU Joint Undertakings
The European Commission has proposed to Member States to expand the highly problematic model of EU Joint Undertakings, very large industry-driven public-private research partnerships, in the EU’s new research funding programme Horizon Europe. Read here
Finance
CNBC: Europe could be seeing the decline of its gig economy. And new rules could mean higher prices
Uber’s loss in the U.K. Supreme Court last month forced the company to reclassify 70,000 of its British drivers as workers. In Spain, legislators have introduced a raft of measures that would recategorize gig workers […]
Sustainability
Rachel Muncrief – EU Car Emissions: A tale of two policies
The EU’s Built In Cheating Device for Cars Rachel Muncrief is Deptuy-Director of ICCT Cross-posted from the ICCT website Last year I blogged about the difference between real-world emissions of heavy-duty vehicles (HDV) in the […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The cat is progressively getting out of the bag
Public officials tell the public they are not doing A but B, while doing exactly A Read here
EU politics
Wolfgang Munchau: The dictator and us
The case for an EU foreign and security policy – just like the case for a European centre for disease control – remains strong. But it needs to be based on clarity of purpose. Unless […]
Aviation
Reuters: French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights
French lawmakers voted late on Saturday to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours, as the government seeks to lower carbon emissions even as the air travel […]
EU politics
Abigail B. Bakan, Alejandro I. Paz, Anna Zalik, Deborah Cowen – Jewish scholars defend the right to academic freedom on Israel/Palestine
People carry a sign protesting Israeli actions in Palestine during a protest march in Toronto in May 2018. (Raghd Hamzeh), Author provided Abigail B. Bakan, University of Toronto; Alejandro I. Paz, University of Toronto; Anna […]
Austerity
Post Growth: Life after Capitalism by Tim Jackson
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose On Monday, 12 April at 8pm CET, BRAVE NEW EUROPE will be presenting a Webinar with Tim Jackson about his book Post Growth. There will be a simultaneous Translation […]
Climate Crisis
Jeffrey Sachs – New Economics for Sustainable Development
The Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism hosted Jeffrey Sachs on sustainable development, ecological crises, inequality+Q/A on the weakness of economics in addressing empirics, non-market institutions, technological change, and its own ethical foundations