After a breakup, it can be difficult to split up the things that you once shared together. Whether it be dividing up your friends or divvying up your old favorite hangouts, the practicalities of creating a new life after a relationship can often be hard. For a relationship that has more drama than a daytime…
Category: Economy
Global liberal economic order
Some time ago, I read an article online that was introducing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. It was written in an optimistic and serene style, describing all the advantages, like job creation, increase in trade and deeper interconnection between two most important economies, abolition of many quotas and duties, etc. However, despite the enthusiastic…
Climate changes: focus on the Arctic region
II.part- economic and political features Economic potential and relative richness; According to numerous explorations, the Arctic region is rich of natural resources. The melting ice-cover does not bring just new sea routes that could considerably reduce costs for shipping companies, but as well it brings the new opportunities of exploitation and acquisition of substantial…
The equal division of work
Youth unemployment is on the rise, not only in the countries such as Spain and Greece -countries that are severely affected by the crisis and the forced austerity measures – but also in the Netherlands, youth unemployment increases daily. In order to solve this problem in the context of the current economic crisis, we should…
THE NEED TO PRESERVE THE COMMONS
Common-property and open-access resources have repeatedly been portrayed as the centerpiece of a Tragedy of the commons. Those resources – such as a forest or a fishery – would tend irremediably to be overused as homo œconomicus users aim to maximize their individual benefit and lead to the depletion of such resources. To answer this…
Couple wages – reduce wage inequality!
On the 10th of April the “Youth in Crisis”-conference took place in Brussels. One of the proposals worked out by the economic workshop is a “coupling” of wages, which is also called a “maximum wage ratio” by some. This seems to be a relatively new and not well-known concept1, which is why I have decided…
Local Water Initiative in Berlin
In 1999, the public water supply (Berliner Wasserbetriebe) in Berlin was partially privatized. Its 49,9% stake was bought for 1,68 Mrd. Euros by the French cooperation Veolia (recent Vivendi) and the German cooperation RWE. The contract regarding the partial privatization was “top secret” and only few representatives of the parliament were able to look into…
The Big Business Climate Change Conundrum
The vast majority of scientists and experts who have anything to say on the subject consider the following simple, apolitical fact- the world is getting warmer and much of its weather more severe. Temperatures have climbed steadily since the beginning of the 20th century and spiked recently. NASA reported that 9 of the ten hottest…
Outthinking Inequality in a Distorted Financial System
There has been always inequality within human society. The level of equality in any society can reflect its level of democracy, but also the socio-economic model in which the society functions. There is no doubt that under equal conditions a society thrives more and is more diverse. The recent financial crisis has contributed to an…
The carbon market beyond Kyoto?
A plea to include six measures into the post-Kyoto agreemen[1] ‘Concerns about climate change have placed this threat to development prospects high on the international agenda, particularly in terms of its economic, trade and social impacts’[2].