Posted by admin on May 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
GDP is a useful tool for what it measures, as long as you understand that it only measures certain things — and those admittedly critical things don’t necessarily stand in for development and economic progress overall. There have been numerous attempts over the years to find ways to measure development more comprehensively, most famously the […]
Posted by admin on March 5, 2011 · 2 Comments
This is the sixth in a series of guest blog posts by Alissa Emmel about renewable energy projects in Nicaragua. In my last post, I described helping to provide power for a “solar restaurant.” The Solar Women of Totogalpa have decided to open a restaurant which will be completely run on solar energy, will use […]
Posted by admin on January 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Tonight I was planning on posting the next installment in Alissa’s series on renewable energy projects in Nicaragua. However, I’m preempting that post to share the news that a Real Time Economics blog post from The Wall Street Journal links to Alissa’s recent, co-authored article in the Monthly Labor Review. (The article, which is for […]