Economics Archives - The Counterfactual

Asking the wrong question – biofuels

By Clive Bates / 15 November 2007 / 9 Comments / Other policy, Science

I don’t want to do a full scale critique of biofuels – not least because that would be to enter […]

By Clive Bates / 4 November 2007 / 4 Comments / Business

Imagine your job is taking huge gambles with other people’s savings and pensions. Imagine also that the bets are arranged

By Clive Bates / 1 November 2007 / 8 Comments / European policy

Way past bedtime on 17th December 2005, frazzled European leaders decided how to spend just under one trillion Euro. They

My otherwise peaceful morning slumber was disturbed by a radio interview announcing that social scientists Steve Rayner and Gwin Prins

By Clive Bates / 9 October 2007 / 10 Comments / Other policy

Sometimes you can be wading through a report and hit something that abruptly tells you it isn’t really worth reading

By Clive Bates / 30 September 2007 / 1 Comment / Other policy

Once it was famous only for the ’70s Mod-revival band, The Merton Parkas. And, frankly, it wasn’t that famous even

By Clive Bates / 21 September 2007 / 8 Comments / Other policy

There’s speculation in the papers [last weekend’s Guardian, earlier in the Independent] that the government is to back the Severn

By Clive Bates / 15 September 2007 / Leave a Comment / Other policy

In my last post I asked for nominations for a worse policy than the proposed ‘Health in Pregnancy Grant’. An

By Clive Bates / 12 September 2007 / 1 Comment / Other policy, Science

One of the big questions for me is whether we devote too much land to farming and not enough to

Yvo de Boer, head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) argues that richer countries should be able