https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Tue, 29 Mar 2022 05:06:56 +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/three-forgotten-lessons-about-the-circular-economy/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/three-forgotten-lessons-about-the-circular-economy/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:31:29 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=27262

A circular economy requires a more holistic view of the economy (image by Tony Biddle 2020). Emma Fromberg retrieves some earlier wisdom. I vividly remember the first time that the idea … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/three-forgotten-lessons-about-the-circular-economy/feed/ 1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-point-of-no-return/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-point-of-no-return/#respond Fri, 03 Jul 2020 04:59:37 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=26033

The disintegration of growth is irreversible. Roxana Bobulescu explains. I was born in Romania in 1972 when the country was a socialist republic. It was the year of the Meadows … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-point-of-no-return/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-trillion-tree-delusion/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-trillion-tree-delusion/#respond Fri, 03 Jul 2020 04:40:13 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=26055

Going carbon neutral by planting a trillion trees will make our climate problem worse says Kathleen McAfee. Will planting trees save the planet from global warming? Billionaires attending the 2020 … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-trillion-tree-delusion/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/davos-2030/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/davos-2030/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2020 08:19:13 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=25038

The Mint despatches Guy Dauncey to Switzerland, a decade into the future, to report on the global summit. It was pouring when we arrived in Davos. The local news channels … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/davos-2030/feed/ 1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/what-will-time-tell/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/what-will-time-tell/#respond Thu, 02 Apr 2020 08:07:30 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=25030

Covid infection is, for most people, a rough few days. A side effect of mass containment could atrophy our humanity. Frances Coppola evaluates the prospects. The fight against the coronavirus … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/what-will-time-tell/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/beware-brits-bearing-myths/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/beware-brits-bearing-myths/#respond Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:11:53 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=12482

Greece’s slide into depression became a cautionary tale told by Tories to get the UK to do its austerity duty. But a decade on, where there is now hope in … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/beware-brits-bearing-myths/feed/ 0 https://www.themintmagazine.com/why-we-should-abandon-gdp/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/why-we-should-abandon-gdp/#comments Thu, 12 Dec 2019 06:39:21 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=12515

Gross Domestic Product is the most popular and useless quantity in economics say Erald Kolasi and Blair Fix. For all that it purports to say, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fails … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/why-we-should-abandon-gdp/feed/ 4 https://www.themintmagazine.com/nordhauss-nobel-prize-is-safe-but-the-world-isnt/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/nordhauss-nobel-prize-is-safe-but-the-world-isnt/#comments Thu, 04 Jul 2019 06:02:27 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=6671

An economic analysis that won the highest of accolades and spawned influential followers has sharpened the threat from climate change, says Steve Keen. One of the provisions of the Nobel … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/nordhauss-nobel-prize-is-safe-but-the-world-isnt/feed/ 6