NewScientist on economics
Andy Wimbush is nef‘s Communications Assistant and blogmaster. Orthodox free market economists often like to portray their discipline as being as objective and impartial as any of the natural sciences....
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Andrew Simms is nef‘s Policy Director and head of nef’s Climate Change programme. We should design a system in which we worship the invisible heart of society rather the invisible hand of the market...
View ArticleFive ways to well-being, and other tales
Sam Thompson is a researcher and a consultant at nef‘s centre for well-being. Today sees the launch of the government’s Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing. nef‘s Centre for Well-being...
View ArticleDissecting the news
Andy Wimbush is nef‘s Communications Assistant and blogmaster. In the first of what may or may not be a regular ‘column’, I’d like to engage in a little bit of what humanities academics call ‘discourse...
View ArticleBlog Action Day 2009
Andy Wimbush is nef‘s Communications Assistant and blogmaster. Today, apparently, is Blog Action Day 2009. The idea? Everyone blogs about climate change! In a frenzy of web activity! (Just don’t...
View Article82 months and counting…
Andrew Simms is nef‘s Policy Director and head of nef’s Climate Change programme. The world is not run according to climate science. Amid the almost hysterical jeering since the Copenhagen climate...
View ArticleEvidence-based climate change policy?
Karen Schucan-Bird is a researcher in nef’s Climate Change and Energy team. In response to the recent media hysteria, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a news statement last week...
View Article81 months and counting…
Like a bad disaster film, the naysayers have been in charge over climate change. It’s not too late to rewrite the final scenes. Andrew Simms is nef‘s Policy Director and head of nef’s Climate Change...
View ArticleBecause it would be mental.
Andy Wimbush is nef‘s Communications Officer and blogmaster. Jokes about climate change used to be in short supply, but fortunately climate “sceptics”* rectified all that. Here’s Richard Glover of the...
View ArticleNot enough space for carbon in the ground?
The capture and the long-term storage of CO2 is now central to plans for reducing CO2 emissions from large-scale fossil fuel uses. But new and controversial research argues the storage potential of CO2...
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