Une ville inondée génère des contrats. Un bassin versant sain, qui contribue à prévenir l’inondation, ne génère aucun revenu pour ceux qui l’entretiennent. Le malade rapporte, la santé pas. La réparation est visible dans l’économie. La prévention, elle, peine souvent à trouver un acheteur.
Who Wants to Be an Economist?
Can humanity thrive without destroying the planet? It all depends on your representation of the economic purpose, says Kate Raworth, a “renegade economist” working at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
The New World of Terror
The war on terror was supposed to signal the dawn of a new world era. What does its “New-World” mythology rest upon, and how do we, the people, come to accept fear as the principle of political power?
See the Big Picture
“All the world’s a stage,” said Shakespeare. Along with new roles for Market and State, the 21st-century economics play needs new characters on stage, such as Household, Commons, Society, and Earth.
Demotic Moments
Democracy is, by nature, a work in progress, and Western history has had very few occurrences when the “demos” became a politically self-conscious actor. What do these moments teach us?