With acknowledgements for the above image to IFC’s Report: The Dirty Footprint of the Broken Grid. The most promising aspect of the start-up company I chair – A-Deus – is the radical, decentralised and transformative energy concept at its heart. Once operating, the company could help empower millions of Africans that consume very little …
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At a time when Britain and Europe are experiencing a dire energy crisis, and in what is a new direction for me, I have joined A-Deus, an innovative, community- based clean energy company as chair of the board of directors. I have done so for a number of reasons. It is clear that if the …
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This article first appeared on the Project Syndicate website on 21st September, 2021 Fifty years ago, a US president closed the gold window, ended capital controls, and launched a new era of globalized finance. The “Nixon Shock” reshaped the international monetary system overnight, and then gradually changed the status of central bankers. Instead of acting as …
This is my comment on a major article on Industrial Policy in the Boston Review, published in September, 2021. The leading article was by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Rainer Kattel and Josh Ryan-Collins. In their well-executed argument for a new approach to economic policy, Mazzucato, Kattel, and Ryan-Collins spell out how governments could develop an industrial policy to shape …
When I first began to use computers in the 1980s, my Techie pals in the opensource community were dismissive of Microsoft’s ‘clunky’ and vulnerable software and advised me against using its products. But I disagreed. In the eyes of geeks, the software may have been badly coded but it was accessible for me, a non-geeky …
The objectives of this project, The Age of Economics, are to shed light on the most salient challenges facing human civilization, explore the role of economics and the inner workings of capitalism, and heighten people’s awareness of both the economic system in which they live and work, and the role of economics in understanding this ever-changing system.
My contribution to the 15th International Karl Polanyi Conference “The Role of the State in the post-COVID 21st Century” is organized in collaboration with the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University.
I contributed towards this conference on the need for a progressive international system – one that favours Labour not Wealth. I joined a panel with Matthew Klein, author of Trade Wars are Class Wars, and Geoff Tily, chief economist at the British TUC.
Ambrosetti -The European House – is a professional group founded in 1965 which has gradually developed many activities in Italy, in Europe and in the world. It is similar in prestige to the annual meeting of executives at Davos.
