Chesterton’s pub fallacy
In the first part of this article, I showed that the UK has done poorly economically since the referendum. GDP growth is down. It is now 0.4% lower than the EU average of 0.6% (less than GDP growth in Greece!). …
It has been a year since a narrow majority of British voters voted in favour of Brexit. The result has triggered a never-ending debate about its economic and political effects. How do things stand one year later? Last week, Agelos Delis presented some figures in The Conversation (see here). …
Interview with Gregor Czisch. Part 2
The supply from renewable energies in Germany, Europe and beyond
Monday, 05 June 2017
Also after the Paris climate change agreement, people still are interested in the question which options we have to erect a climate friendly energy system. …
Daniel Read tells the story of William Dowell, an American reporter during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. Dowell ran into problems of his own, soon deciding that his editors operated using a “calculus of death” to determine “newsworthiness.” In Dowell’s view this meant placing greater or less value on human lives, …
