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GeoffDavies

Malign Money

In the third and final instalment of his series on the economics of wellbeing, Geoff Davies takes on the monetary system and argues that that our debt-burdened money supply is distorting and destabilising the...

Dysfunctional Markets

Geoff Davies explodes the myth that we should sit back and trust the market. He explains that markets rarely operate the way that standard economic theory says they will and that speculation destabilises markets...

Counting Busyness, Missing Wellbeing

This week in Policy we bring you the first installment in a series of articles by Dr. Geoff Davies that outline, in plain English, how the real world deviates from the measures and predictions...

Role and Ownership of Media — a Fundamental Rethink

How do we tilt the balance of media power back towards society at large rather than special interests? Geoff Davies argues that we need to look at ways of vesting media ownership broadly in...

Quick Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions is Possible, and Urgent

Geoff Davies argues that one reason you don’t hear the opportunities for energy efficiency being advocated by mainstream economists is apparently that they are generally very ignorant of such practicalities (as well as of...