Professionals across diverse work environments play a crucial role in facilitating and accelerating essential transformations towards sustainability. Recognising the urgent need to avert severe, irreversible har
PISA 2022 is the first large scale international assessment that claims to capture the impact of Covid-19 on school systems worldwide. Learning loss is observed in many countries around the globe and Estonia is not an exception. However, Estonia is still
A reformulation that does justice to the egalitarian aim of the principle of difference is, however, possible: namely, a degrowthist reformulation, truly requiring a degrowth in accumulation and inequalities, making explicit a brake clause that hinders the aggregate growth of inequalities. Such a d...
Economic utility is the totalamount of satisfactionsomeone experiences when they consume a particular product or service. There are four types of economic utility: form, time, place, and possession. These help measure how much fulfillment someone requires to satisfy a particular need or want. Compan...
Based on our review we conclude that deltas should be considered complex socio-ecological-cum-technical systems and that transformations are needed to achieve sustainability in deltas. The interdependency between societies, their natural environment and technological intervention is evident in deltas, sinc...
What effect does relative scarcity have on the economy? Is scarcity the central problem of all economics as well as a mother of all economics? What is the major problem with using monetary policy to stabilize the economy? What is the solution to the central economic problems given...
It also goes some way in resolving the more fundamental concerns of some participants about the assumptions and language behind the questions, such as ‘benefits’ and ‘advantaged’ and ‘disadvantaged’, which suggest a normative view that digital agriculture is universally beneficial and desirable....
Practitioners often combine positive and normative economics in their work. Positive Economics Positive economics focuses on describing and explaining economic phenomena as they are. It’s supposed to be using models based on objective data. This is the part of economics that, since Adam Smith, ha...
My guest today is Joseph Henrich, a professor at Harvard, and an expert on the evolution of human cooperation and culture. I am a big fan of his book, “The Secret of Our Success” and he just published a new one called the Weirdest People in the World about people who fall under ...
working definition of morality in a descriptive sense25, closely related to deontological ethics26, one of the three classic major normative moral theories (Methods). Roughly speaking, it evaluates the morality of actions based on whether an action itself is right or wrong under a series of ...