I am not afraid of the totalitarian state as an economic fact, an economic machine to facilitate the complex business of living in a community.

Tim Jackson's economic reality check

Another economic game that may not be as well known as the prisoner's dilemma is the ultimatum game, and it's also a very interesting probe of our assumptions about the way people make economic transactions.

And not just sustainable from an environmental standpoint, sustainable from an economic standpoint as well.

I looked at slaves. I met slaveholders, and I looked very deeply into slave based businesses because this is an economic crime.

So, because I am a trained economist and I think in economic terms, all of the sudden I thought, maybe there is something here.

Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship.

Now while this may be the low economic cost solution, this is certainly not the low environmental or human health and safety solution.

We really need to develop models, business models, where coastal conservation is an investment, because we already know that these marine reserves provide social, ecological and economic benefits.

However, in spite of the law allowing marriage between mini states, many families don t let their children marry the residents of other mini states, for economic or social reasons.

The nineteenth century also saw the development of socialist theory, which held that the primary task of the state was to ensure the economic and social well being of the community through government intervention and regulation.

And this engine is not just economic value it is pulling material resources relentlessly through the system, driven by our own insatiable appetites, driven in fact by a sense of anxiety.

(iii) Governments assessing and adopting additional economic instruments at the national level that can help advance internalization of the costs of sound chemicals management within relevant industries

As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises and start investing in our future.

And I think one of the problems of a recession is that people become more protectionist, they look in on themselves, they try to protect their own nation, perhaps at the expense of other nations.

And we all noticed immediately that this project had no economic benefits It had no clients, nobody would buy the electricity there, nobody was interested in irrigation projects.

And by presenting a really strong economic case, they convinced the L.A. government that replacing that asphalt with trees and other greenery, that the schools themselves would save the system more on energy than they spend on horticultural infrastructure.

Major demonstrations are being planned across the country after today's Friday prayers, in what has been dubbed the Million Egyptian March, in protest for political and economic reforms, and the end of Hosni Mubarak's 30 year rule.

When I look around, I see people who want to make a contribution, I see people who want to make a better world, by doing groundbreaking scientific work, by creating impressive works of art, by writing critical articles or inspiring books, by starting up sustainable businesses.

Social relations and exchange become significantly more important than they ever were as an economic phenomenon. In some contexts, it's even more efficient because of the quality of the information, the ability to find the best person, the lower transaction costs. It's sustainable and growing fast.

(iv) Governments studying the potential for the use of economic instruments at the international or global level to advance internalization within relevant industries of the costs to national Governments of sound chemicals management programmes and associated activities

So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good because the organizations that know it best, that know it from the inside out, are spending work to conceal it.

Enric Sala shares glorious images and surprising insights and data from some of the most pristine areas of the ocean. He shows how we can restore more of our oceans to this healthy, balanced state, and the powerful ecological and economic benefits of doing so.

I think that failure can be an incredibly motivating force as well, so I moved to Kenya and worked in Uganda, and I met a group of Rwandan women, who asked me, in 1986, to move to Kigali to help them start the first microfinance institution there.