resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: Water in the #anthropocene: a global overview. New video via collaborative project Welcome to the Anthropocene: https:… May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading "Happiness is greater in natural environments" paper using phone app monitoring of subjective wellbeing http://t.co/2xb2nMikRs May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Future Earth research to enable "justice and equity for all peoples in a world of ecological resilience" O’Riordan in http://t.co/W5fO1S6uFR May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @christofab: New Special Issue of Ecology&Society: complexity thinking in southern Africa http://t.co/SQQEsBA8Es May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading "Six attributes of social resilience" new paper by Maclean et al in Journal of Env. Planning & Management http://t.co/kpoUTKroZi May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene And here's my former McGill colleague Bernhard Lehner's 200 yrs of world dam data https://t.co/dO4721U8U4 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene Here's James Syvitski in 2011 of 200 yrs of USA dam construction http://t.co/qDj1nEpU9d May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @erleellis: Abstract time for the 2014 Global Land Project Open Science Meeting in Berlin http://t.co/dn7Wo8I5y8 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading UNEP's: #City-Level DeCoupling-urban resource flows & the governance of infrastructure #transitions http://t.co/9B3IFBoJ5R May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Agricultural regime shift in Texas: long term aquifer depletion+drought= loss of vast areas of farm land http://t.co/fsYyuaJxD5 #resilience May 20, 2013
Tag Archives: economics
Food security and financial markets
FAO says that Food price volatility a major threat to food security: Concluding a day-long special meeting in Rome the experts recognized that unexpected price hikes “are a major threat to food security” and recommended further work to address their … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Economics, Regime Shifts
Tagged agriculture, Bryce Cooke, C. Morgan, Christopher Gilbert, economics, FAO, feedbacks, finance, food crisis, Frederick Kaufman, IFPRI, Miguel Robles, speculation
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Estimating welfare: another measure
New NBER paper Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time by Charles Jones and Peter Klenow looks interesting. They propose a new summary statistic for a nation’s flows of welfare that combines data on consumption, leisure, inequality, and mortality. They … Continue reading
Posted in Inequality
Tagged Charles Jones, economics, GDP, human wellbeing, NBER, Peter Klenow
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How much is African poverty really falling?
Martin Ravallion, Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank,responds to Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin’s NBER paper that estimates a decline in African poverty. He agrees that poverty is decreasing, but believes they are overstating their case. … Continue reading
Posted in Inequality
Tagged africa, economics, income data, Martin Ravallion, poverty, Sala-i-Martin
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Economics as a complex systems science
An interesting interview of Paul Krugman by Edward Hugh is on A Fistful of Euros: E.H. : The late Sir Karl Popper used to contrast what he regarded as science with ideologies like Marxism and Psychoanalysis, because there seemed to … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged A Fistful of Euros:, complex systems, economics, Edward Hugh, Paul Krugman, Science
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Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prize in Economics
Our colleague, Lin Ostrom was just in Stockholm to receive her Nobel Prize. I was fortunate to be able to congratulate Lin Ostrom before her Nobel Lecture. Her prize Lecture, Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Beijer Institute, commons, economics, Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, Nobel prize, Stockholm Resilience Centre
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Paradoxes of efficient market theory
Complex systems scientist Cosma Shalizi reviews economic journalist Justin Fox‘s book The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street for American Scientist magazine in the article Twilight of the Efficient Markets: The … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged Cosma Shalizi, economics, Efficient Market Hypothesis, financial crisis, Jestin Fox
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Income, fertility and the world’s demographic trajectory
The Economists looks at recent declines in fertility discusses current projections of world population, and how changes in a country’s demographic structure shape its economic development (but it doesn’t mention the role of urbanization). In Fertility and living standards it … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged demography, development, economics, Economist, fertility, global
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World distribution of income
In a new paper, Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income, Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin revisit previous work by Sala-i-Martin, and estimate that globally income has substantially increased, reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty, and … Continue reading
Posted in Inequality
Tagged economics, income distribution, Maxim Pinkovskiy, Xavier Sala-i-Martin
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Elinor Ostrom wins Nobel Prize!
Huge congratulations to our colleague Elinor Ostrom who has just won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.”
Krugman on Keynes and Uncertainty
Paul Krugman reviews Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky in the Observer. He writes: …there’s an alternative interpretation of what Keynes was all about, one offered by Keynes himself in an article published in 1937, a year … Continue reading