When the “Central Bank of Oil” runs dry
The blog Oil Man has commented on an article published in the Guardian, that analyses the indiscretions of the famous site in regards to information contained in American diplomatic cables sent between […]
Author Archives: The Shift Project
Finance Watch : a « Greenpeace for finance »*
The NGO Finance Watch started from a call launched by European elected officials worried about the future of democracy after realising that the force of financial lobbying in Brussels was not exposed […]
Is the Grand Paris plan really “low carbon”?
This is the question leading the study of the consulting firm Carbone 4, presented on 24 January by Hélène Le Teno at Sciences-Po’s Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations […]
Speculation on its own does not explain the inflation
The author, who is the chairman of the Global Warning consultancy agency, thinks it is completely wrong that energy and food prices are usually excluded when calculating inflation. Inflation is […]
Long-term investing: mission impossible?
The energy ‘transition’ will require massive investments in the real economy. For this to succeed, the financial world must change its practices in order to restore trust and engage in […]
CarbonCamp on the 19th of October 2010 in la Cantine
We invite you to join the first CarbonCamp in Paris on the 19th of October in “La Cantine”.More information and subscription on : http://barcamp.org/CarbonCampParis2010
The “appalled economists”, Alain Grandjean signatory of the Manifesto
Four economists, 22 measures, one manifesto. André Orléan, Philippe Askenazy, Thomas Coutrot and Henri Sterdyniak are the co-authors of the manifesto entitled: “Crisis and debt in Europe: 10 untruths, 22 […]
Bjorn Lomborg changes his mind
Bjorn Lomborg is a statistician, a professor at the Copenhagen Business School and the former Director of the Environmental Assessment Institute of Copenhagen. He became famous for his book, the […]
Military Study Warns of a Potentially Drastic Oil Crisis
A study by a German military think tank, the Future Analysis department of the Bundeswehr Transformation Centre, has analyzed how “peak oil” may change the global economy. For the very […]