Putin’s War Is Damaging the Developing World

Jo Michell discusses some key implications of climate change regarding the standard policy prescriptions of Post-Keynesian economics, particularly relating to the possible necessity of consumption constraints and the presence of recurrent inflation.

Dos amigos universitarios realizan un recorrido por seis países de América Latina conociendo iniciativas que buscan construir una nueva economía.

Balance of payments stability is of paramount importance for developing countries, both to secure the value of their domestic currencies as well as reliable foreign currency inflows. But how is that stability ensured and how important is the growth of exports for stability?

The objective of the course is to explore the main strengths and weaknesses of orthodox and heterodox paradigms within development economics.

The last 15 years have seen extensive research into ecosystem service valuation (ESV), spurred by the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment in 2005 (Baveye, Baveye & Gowdy, 2016). Ecosystem services are defined as “the benefits people obtain from ecosystems” (Millenium Ecosystem Assessment, p.V). For example, ecosystems provide the service of sequestering carbon which helps regulate the climate. Valuation means giving ecosystems or their services a monetary price, for example researchers have estimated that the carbon sequestration services of the Mediterranean Sea is between 100 and 1500 million euros per year. The idea of ESV was a response to the overuse of natural resources and degradation of ecosystems, allegedly due to their undervaluation and exclusion from the monetary economy. ESV can be used (1) for policy decision-making, for example allocating funding to a reforestation project (2) for setting payments to people who increase ecosystem services, for example a farmer increasing the organic carbon content of their soil, and (3) for determining fees for people who degrade ecosystem services, for example a company that causes deforestation.

Die Notwendigkeit einer nationalen und globalen Umverteilung von Vermögen. Piketty zeichnet den historischen Verlauf von Ungleichheit in der Geschichte des Kapitalismus nach und macht deutlich, dass ein Übermaß an materieller Ungleichheit für das demokratische Miteinander erhebliche Gefahren mit sich bringt.