Green Economics

An upcoming event advocates for a recalibration of our current economic system to create a sustainable future for generations to come.

Economists have all but forgotten about the source of real wealth - the land under our feet. They do so at their peril

Lord Adair Turner - head of the FSA and the Climate Change Committe - has ruffled feathers by suggesting a tax on currency trading. Here's why

Molly gets her knuckles rapped for not including standard economic models in her university teaching, and wonders if the profession is disappearing up its own regression formula...

Business and the wider economy can become sustainable parts of the ecosystem - here are some ideas

This budget season, and so a short perambulation around the vexed question of the national debt seems in order. As a nation we've been living with debt for more the 300 years now, since 1694 to be precise, when Scottish privateer William Paterson persuaded the government of the time that creating £1.2 million of IOUs would get them out of their spending difficulties.