The business of betting on catastrophe | Omega
by Susan Erikson in MIT Press...World Bank pandemic bonds paid out only after death tolls passed a threshold. They’re part of a booming market where investo ...| omega.ngo
by Susan Erikson in MIT Press...World Bank pandemic bonds paid out only after death tolls passed a threshold. They’re part of a booming market where investo ...| omega.ngo
by Andrea Coveri, et al, in Intereconomics...The link between Big Tech and the military apparatus brings back traditions of economic thought too often forgo ...| omega.ngo
by Hannah Ritchie in Our World in Data...Most countries spend less than 1% of their national income on foreign aid; even small increases could make a big di ...| omega.ngo
by Mark Mizruchi in American Behavioral Scientist...The actions of societal elites exert a disproportionate impact on events and outcomes in their home soci ...| omega.ngo
by Hans Taparia and Bruce Buchanan in The New York Times...With one hand they generate supernormal profits by plundering society, and with the other they do ...| omega.ngo
by James Rebanks in UnHerd...The answer is to be ready, with a more resilient and secure food system before something goes wrong. We need an inspired farmin ...| omega.ngo
in Beshara Magazine...We talk to Leonora Grcheva of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab about how Kate Raworth’s innovative economic theory is being translate ...| omega.ngo
by Brandon Specktor in LiveScience.com...A steep downturn in human population and quality of life could be coming in the 2040s, the report finds.| omega.ngo
by Angela Garcia Calvo in New Political Economy...In the second half of the 1990s, the commercial internet emerged as a remarkable connectivity tool that pr ...| omega.ngo
by Ajit Niranjan in The Guardian...US suffered greatest economic losses, report commissioned by International Chamber of Commerce finds, followed by China a ...| omega.ngo
by Adam Tooze in Chartbook...The denaturing of the gold standard and the emergence of the new field of monetary macroeconomics combined to pose the question ...| omega.ngo
by Jennifer Szalai in The New York Times....Economic growth has been ecologically costly — and so a movement in favor of ‘degrowth’ is growing.| omega.ngo
by Terry Gangcuanco in Insurance Business Magazine....Canadian insurtech MyChoice has released a new study showing a sharp rise in insurable losses linked t ...| omega.ngo
