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Humanity and the environment are under massive assault by global warming caused by human activities.
The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released…
C. J. Polychroniou on the mounting crises threatening civilisation.
A cursory glance at the state of today’s world will give pause to anyone wishing to celebrate …
Branko Milanovic explores alternatives to the problem of eurocentrism in economics.
Sebastian Conrad’s book “What is global history?” is in many ways important for economists…
Global warming is accelerating, bringing the world close to the edge of the precipice. Heat waves, floods and deaths are major news, and as Truthout has reported, “…
Branko Milanovic finds important lessons for activists in Norway's climate change virtue-signaling.
In the eighteenth century, the English-led East India Company gradually managed…
Rafael Jimenez Aybar argues that civil society and empowered publics play vital roles in creating the political space for new climate commitments.
People all over the…
C.J. Polychroniou interviews Professor Emeritus James K. Boyce about his career exploring agrarian societies, environmental economics and climate change.
C.J.…
We have the technical know-how as well as the available economic resources to make the transition to a clean energy future. Now it must be done.
The Declaration of Independence,…
Markus H.-P. Müller argues that platform economies hold opportunities to build a better society.
Digital retail, neighbourhood communities, mobile learning, B2B sales - as…
Scott L. Montgomery argues that the specter of global ageing shouldn’t haunt the present and offers reasons to be optimistic about demographic change.
Humanity is facing yet…