https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:31:27 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-The-Mint-Coin-32x32.jpg https://www.themintmagazine.com 32 32 https://www.themintmagazine.com/indias-age-concern/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/indias-age-concern/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:39:38 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=31302

One of India’s greatest assets is youth. Jayan Jose Thomas calls for changes in established thinking to harness its potential. India, like many South Asian countries, has a young population. … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/indias-age-concern/feed/ 1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/as-real-as-it-gets/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/as-real-as-it-gets/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:30:09 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=31286

Climate change: Bangladesh is where it is at. Rohini Kamal shows the way.  Debates on climate change are often dominated by heated commentary from the West on its impending peril … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/as-real-as-it-gets/feed/ 1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/more-is-less/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/more-is-less/#respond Fri, 01 Jul 2022 13:53:30 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=31014

Mainstream politics has long proved resistant to the arguments of those who question the pursuit of unending economic growth. Richard McNeill Douglas suggests a treatment. It is fifty years since … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/more-is-less/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/economics-rules-not-ok/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/economics-rules-not-ok/#respond Thu, 30 Jun 2022 18:03:42 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=30990

Economic decisions are made without the full understanding of the people they affect most. Katy Wiese spells out the issues. For many, economics is technical, jargon-laden, yet abstract, making it … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/economics-rules-not-ok/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/three-steps-out-of-a-fix/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/three-steps-out-of-a-fix/#respond Fri, 01 Apr 2022 05:22:28 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=30508

Rick Rowden offers a trio of measures to overhaul a creaking global financial system Thanks to the historically ambitious scale of their fiscal and monetary policies, most of the rich … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/three-steps-out-of-a-fix/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/having-it-all/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/having-it-all/#respond Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:37:10 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=30498

Could private funding actually benefit nature? Henry Leveson-Gower proposes a cooperative approach. Since the 80s environmental economists have been putting monetary values on nature so they get “counted”. Now they … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/having-it-all/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-ifs-and-buts-of-hydrogen/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-ifs-and-buts-of-hydrogen/#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2022 07:08:57 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=30374

Hydrogen may be useful, but how green can it really be? asks Roland Kupers. It has been used for centuries: from lifting the balloon that Jacques Charles floated over Paris … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-ifs-and-buts-of-hydrogen/feed/ 1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/farmers-plough-their-own-furrow-to-change/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/farmers-plough-their-own-furrow-to-change/#respond Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:10:27 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=30315

A brew of chemical fertilisers, sewage and other pollutants is costing lives and money as it splashes over our environment and our dinner plates.  Jyoti Banerjee and Arnav Jain offer … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/farmers-plough-their-own-furrow-to-change/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/cash-crops/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/cash-crops/#respond Wed, 15 Dec 2021 17:10:28 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=29365

Henry Leveson-Gower looks at how local food currencies might bear fruit. Our food system is deeply dysfunctional.  Economic forces drive it to deliver unhealthy food, while trashing the environment so … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/cash-crops/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/who-will-save-the-world/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/who-will-save-the-world/#respond Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:56:22 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=29362

Raj Thamotheram is, in theory, betting on pension funds. Covid has transformed global politics and the Omicron variant has caused markets to tumble. Meanwhile COP26 failed to address, adequately, the … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/who-will-save-the-world/feed/ 0