On Monday the 19th of June, Britain started its negotiations with the EU. This first phase of the talks will tackle three main areas: safeguarding the rights of citizens; financial settlement of the UK’s obligations and the new external borders of the EU. …
“When historians will write about this election – in so far as they can be bothered – they won’t talk about the dementia tax, or fields of wheat, or politicians forgetting their sums. They will marvel at how an advanced democracy could hold a general election without addressing the issue which was about the change it forever” (Ian Dunt (here)). …
Are Keynesianism and Neoclassical economics antipodes?
by Heiner Flassbeck
Keynesianism and neoclassical theory are often seen as the two main approaches in economic theory. Many assume that the large gap that exists between the two approaches or schools can be bridged by a middle oft he road approach based on pragmatic assumptions and empirical research. …
There is good news, unfortunately it is not true
Stefan Rahmstorf (see here) and Anders Levermann, both from PIK, the Potsdam Research Climate Centre, published an article on realclimate.org a couple of days ago. Levermann is also a professor and the editor of Earth System Dynamics (see here). …
