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Bob Hancké, PEACS 2 June 2025     Over the last few years, much has been written about the central role of China in many aspects of the...

Bob Hancké, PEACS 15 May 2025     Every few years the universal basic income (UBI) makes a reappearance in policy debates. The idea...

Photis Lysandrou 8 May 2025   There is no question that Donald Trump's highly disruptive tariff policies have caused uncertainty to...

Bob Hanck é 6 May 2025 Over the last few weeks, I have read more than one column in the FT, NYT, Guardian and book reviews discussing the...

Bob Hancké 25 March 2025     Winston Churchill is supposed to have remarked that the Americans will always do the right thing – after...

From green political-economy principles to practice   So, given all these ideas, what could a green policy look like in practice?...

A green transition is a systemic transition   The public goods question that I discussed in the previous essay on how to think about...

How do you handle the problems that this essay series has identified? If neither technology nor economics are the core of the problem, as...

Bob Hancké, PEACS 11 March 2025   While the abstract macro-economic categories that I discussed a few days ago are important, citizens...

Bob Hancké, PEACS 7 MARCH 2025   One of the main concerns about the green transition has been its massive cost. Even though the net costs...