Tag Archives: belief economics
Growth and belief economics
Following the previous post, there is a strong link between green growth and belief economics. Consider Gordon, the guy who has 10 quid in his pocket which he saved on energy bills because he put in insulation. What he does … Continue reading
Gina Rinehart v Daryl Hannah. No contest.
People say: “You need economic growth if you want to save the planet. You need wealth to be able to invest into green energy and new farming technologies and electric cars and insulation and so forth.” This doesn’t stack up: … Continue reading
A fishing accident
It was a hot winter’s day. The prime minister, Onan Hash, and his deputy, the minister for economic decline, Nat Eb, were spending the day on strategy. They’d decamped to Hash’s beach-front cottage on the west coast of Scotland. Onan … Continue reading
Nature: love it or price it?
Yesterday my sister sent me a sermon she had given last week at Trinity College, Cambridge. The subject of the sermon was Gerald Manley Hopkins, a poet who wrote about the beauty of the natural world. Here is the 19th … Continue reading
Brick wall policy
High energy prices could result in either recession or investment in cleantech. I imagined a car driving into a wall, say, in a film. In one film the car hits the wall and it’s written off. That’s the recession. In … Continue reading