H/t Chris Albon.
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017).
He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development.
Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.
Osama’s demise: an alternative view
Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching: "Weapons are instruments of bad omen, not instruments for the noble. [The noble man] uses them only when he cannot help it....
Investment strategists gear up for scarcity and peak oil, part 2
A while back I linked to an analysis from Tullett Prebon, a leading brokerage firm, discussing peak oil and limits to growth - not the sort of issues you...
Eli Pariser on how the internet is filtering what you know about
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG4BA7b6ORo[/youtube]
What was BNP leader Nick Griffin doing at a conference on peak oil?
I was in Brussels last week speaking at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (here's my presentation on the oil-food price...
Now that’s what I call a global risk
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At last – the speculator villain that NGOs have been looking for on food prices
Finally, campaigners have found the villain they've been looking for on speculation and food prices. Watching them saddle up and prepare for battle is likely...
CBeebies on international aid architecture
If you have young children, then you will of course be familiar with In the Night Garden, a TV show on CBeebies which goes out each evening just before...
Some job losses that may not trouble you all that much
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW37sEkXMMc[/youtube]
Carbon space explained through the medium of a washing machine
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoKfap4g4w[/youtube]
All those other things still to do after the apocalypse
And now for a special preview of The Future - courtesy of XKCD (who add the following caveat in a pop-up: "Not shown: the approximately 30,000 identical,...
Alex Evans on sustainable economics at INET
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k71RK4QP4NQ[/youtube]
World Bank picks up idea of a World Resources Outlook
The World Bank’s 2011 World Development Report sets out its support for Alex Evans’s proposal of a new integrated World Resources Outlook to give policymakers an overview of resource scarcity trends and their implications for economics, development and conflict risk.
Where are the Arab Mandelas?
Tom Friedman in the NYT today: Syria, Libya, Yemen and Bahrain, countries fractured by tribal, ethnic and religious divisions, would have been ideal for...
Eric Beinhocker on complexity economics
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqPuYQW_cqY[/youtube]
The man Soros calls the new Keynes
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU7UdI41Pu4[/youtube]
Economist humour
An economist joke: Bono and Jeff Sachs are meeting in Harvard to talk about world poverty. After a while, they decide to head out to a Harvard Square eaterie...
A postcard from Bretton Woods (updated)
I've been spending the weekend at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire - the scene of the conference that produced the IMF, the World...
Economics for a world with limits
Text of speech by Alex Evans to Institute for New Economic Thinking annual conference at Bretton Woods; the YouTube video is here. (April 2011) Download...
Soul searching on Chinese foreign policy
ECFR and the Asia Centre have a new edition of China Analysis just out which is on the question of whether China has become too bold in its dealings with the...
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