Posted by: Hector Pollitt
Publish date: 3rd July, 2019 | 11:57am3/7/2019
The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) is the largest group of environment-minded economists in Europe. It has recently put out a statement on carbon pricing.
Although many people who I respect have given their support to the statement, it is…
Posted by: Shyamoli Patel
Publish date: 24th June, 2019 | 1:04pm24/6/2019
Many local authorities face pressures on their educational, housing and social care provision on a day-to-day basis. Government population projections are meant to help planners, but are they exacerbating the issues they face?
How can local authorities prepare for population g…
Nuclear energy generation carries risks, but we might just need it for a sustainable future, says Economist Bence Kiss-Dobronyi.
As the urgency to tackle climate change increases, nuclear power could be a prime substitute for fossil fuels. Nuclear power plants produce no CO2 e…
Posted by: Dora Fazekas
Publish date: 29th May, 2019 | 4:20pm29/5/2019
In the past, the natural environment has not typically been a key public policy consideration.
However, with increased public pressure on politicians to address climate change and limit the impact of the human population on the natural environment, policymakers are seeking new…
Posted by: Hector Pollitt
Publish date: 2nd May, 2019 | 11:13am2/5/2019
A policy wish-list from our Director and Head of Modelling, Hector Pollitt, using insights from E3ME modelling (not yet published) in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, Open University, Radboud University and others.
Getting us to net zero will not be possible wit…
Here Unnada Chewpreecha, explores why many studies overestimate the positive job impacts of the transition.
The complex interaction between sectors and regions and between different economic, environmental, material, energy and labour market indicators is often overlooked.
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Posted by: Chris Thoung
Publish date: 4th April, 2019 | 2:57pm4/4/2019
On Sunday, 7 April 2019 it is World Health Day. This year, as last year, the focus is on universal health coverage.
Despite health being long recognised as a human right, far too many people can’t access even the basic services they need. According to the World Health O…
Posted by: Hector Pollitt
Publish date: 1st April, 2019 | 1:13pm1/4/2019
In a previous blog post I wrote about how the positive impacts of trade may be exaggerated by standard models – and how the economic impacts of trade may not always be positive.
I noted that simulations with Cambridge Econometrics’ post-Keynesian E3ME model would not neces…
Posted by: Ben Gardiner
Publish date: 11th March, 2019 | 11:46am11/3/2019
In the first of three blogs focusing on imbalance in the UK’s economy our Director, Ben Gardiner, takes a look at spatial imbalance and productivity.
We find that London pulls away from the other UK regions in terms of productivity and that the regional productivity divergen…
Posted by: Anthony Barker
Publish date: 4th March, 2019 | 11:49am4/3/2019
Viewed over 20 years there’s been little sustained improvement in poverty rates in the UK. But, how should we measure being poverty, and does how we measure it make a material difference to who is seen as in poverty?
Anthony Barker looks at the new indicator developed by the…