This report investigates the effects of select climate policies, non-climate policies, as well as political economy factors on the decarbonisation of electricity in OECD countries from 2000 to 2015. Effects are analysed on the three phases of decarbonisation: (1) increasing the share of...

This paper is part of a growing body of content under the New Economics banner. It incorporates an analysis based on research and new thinking around the need to reform our education policy and our economic thinking keeping self-sufficiency as a goal. It starts off with some philosophical...

In this paper, we acknowledge that the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change have differential fiscal impacts. Whereas mitigation typically raises fiscal revenues, adaptation is costly to the taxpayer and to a greater extent the more distortionary the tax system is. In an OLG model with...

Hermeneutical retrieval -- Retrieving the classical theory of rent -- Ricardo or Marx? The reduction to labor -- Otherwise than capital? -- A phenomenology of land -- Givenness and ground -- The being of land -- Excess and gravity -- The economic turn -- Correlating land -- Dilemma of the...

Economists need to understand some fundamental aspects of science in order to measure and analyse the process of technological change. This book explores the interrelationships between economics, science and technology in order to find ways of improving economists' approaches to technical...

It is often argued that capital should flow from aging industrialized economies to countries with fast-growing populations. However, institutional failures and the risk of expropriation substantially reduce developing economies' attractiveness for foreign investors. We analyze the influence of a...