Renegade Economists Show #279 Listen to the show Subscribe to the podcast This week on Renegade Economists we’re talking to Michael Hudson, economics research professor at the University of Missouri Kansas City, prolific writer and author of half a dozen books on the United State’s economy. Michael’s been paying close attention to China as they prepare their speculative report on … Read More
Lobbyocracy Lurks
The lure of the bureaucrats golden pen tick is set to distort democratic processes as we read today in Minister’s $10,000 dinners: Planning Minister Matthew Guy helped to approve applications made by Melbourne property developers who had attended secret dinners with him and the then chief of the Baillieu government’s urban renewal authority after paying a Liberal fund-raising arm $10,000 … Read More
The future of carbon trading
Renegade Economists Show #276 Listen to the show Subscribe to the podcast Recorded live at the Sustainable Living Festival in Melbourne this week Nic Francis Gilley CEO of Cool NRG discusses the markets role in the fight against global warming. Gilley’s company installs free energy efficient light globes in homes from Melbourne to Mexico, reducing carbons emissions by millions of … Read More
Adding It Up: Environmental Accounting in Australia
Renegade Economists Show #275 Listen to the show Subscribe to the podcast Following on from last weeks interview on ecosystem services valuation, Karl interviews Dr Michael Vardon. Dr Vardon is a special advisor to the Australian Bureau of Statistics on environmental accounting. Dr Vardon introduces the System of Environmental – Economic Accounting (SEEA), which has been in development since 1993 … Read More
On Eco System Service Valuation
Renegade Economists Show #274 Listen to the show Subscribe to the podcast Mining and logging make the big bucks, but what’s the true cost? This week Karl interviews Ian Curtis, of Curtis NRA, whose landmark work on Eco System Service Valuation has won a serious battle in Papua New Guinea. He combines ecology and economics to calculate the cost of environmental degradation … Read More