The Plant-Powered Economist
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The Plant-Powered Economist is the blog of Oliver Ryder-Green, an undergraduate student in economics at the University of Edinburgh. The blog began in 2019 during Oliver's second year at university.
The Plant-Powered Economist
4y ago
Decarbonising the UK economy That is the subject of the excellent Vox article by Jennifer Castle and David Henry ..read more
The Plant-Powered Economist
4y ago
That is the name of a new Minecraft map commissioned by Reporters Without Borders. The map is a platform through which journalists and authors can republish articles which were previously censored under government scrutiny. The map, which was built by the Blockworks design studio, is a small island which contains a gorgeous rendering of a ..read more
The Plant-Powered Economist
4y ago
Less makes more I think one of the fairest critiques of my writing is that it is pleonastic; that is to say, I use more words than necessary. This practice is a kind of tautology; it means that in trying to say more, I say less. I resolve to resolve this habit ..read more
The Plant-Powered Economist
4y ago
The brave and bold prediction about COVID-19 in Japan More. More of this ..read more
The Plant-Powered Economist
4y ago
Get there just in time, or in one piece? In economic analysis we are often content to adopt models that become unrealistic when pushed to extremes, provided they give us what seem like the right answers over the range of values…we are likely to observe in the real world. This sentence was hiding away at ..read more
The Plant-Powered Economist
4y ago
Trepidation. A reason for writing? As I write, the world is in the grips of a global pandemic. COVID-19 is undoubtedly a humanitarian and economic disaster—in that order. Many people find themselves confined to their homes. They have been told to stay inside for their safety. What about their sanity? There are a lot of ..read more
The Plant-Powered Economist
4y ago
The world needs Economists. Try not to disappoint. It had long been argued that economists were too infatuated with their models to appreciate the ugly complexity of the reality that existed outside of their ivory towers. Beguiled by equations that had been pieced together after years of esoteric debate, economists never thought to question the ..read more