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Continue reading →: Europe is abandoning respect for Economic, Social and Cultural Human Rights
This book clearly sets out the fundamental economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights that protect European citizens in education, employment and daily life. Matti Mikkola traces the evolution of these rights from their origins in the liberal state to their prominence within the welfare state. With extensive reference to the…
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Continue reading →: From evidence to legal obligation: The institutional and normative constraints on climate science in court
By Juliana de Augustinis Climate lawsuits are bringing scientific evidence into the courtroom. Citizens, young people and NGOs challenging their governments’ climate policies often rely on IPCC reports, carbon budgets and mitigation pathways to argue that current efforts fall short. Like all scientific evidence, these findings rest on assumptions, involve…
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Continue reading →: Why Social Norms Matter More Than We Think
By Robert C. Dempsey, John McAlaney, Bridgette M. Bewick, and Guido Van Hal Have you ever noticed how people instinctively form a queue, even when there are no signs telling them where to stand? Or wondered why mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic quickly became normal in some settings but not…
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Continue reading →: When Code Meets Community: Bitcoin as a Boundary Object in Practice
In 2017, a heated debate over block size limits split Bitcoin’s developer community, leading to the creation of Bitcoin Cash. To engineers, it was a technical scaling problem; to miners, an economic threat; to activists, a betrayal of decentralization ideals. This moment, which is revisited in my book Embedded Digital…
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Continue reading →: Who Pays for Tomorrow? Rethinking Profit and Responsibility in an Age of Grand Challenges
By Won-Yong Oh By 2050, roughly one in six people worldwide will be aged 65 or older. Fewer workers, rising welfare burdens, and weakening local communities are no longer abstract projections. They are real economic costs unfolding right now. And they bring us to a critical question: Who will pay…
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Continue reading →: Maximize Your Research Impact with Open Access Publishing
To mark the upcoming International Open Access Week, we reflect on the benefits of Open Access publishing assisting authors to maximise their research impact.
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Continue reading →: Why gender belongs at the heart of economics teaching
By Jacqueline Strenio, Laura Beltrán Figueroa, Odile Mackett, and Sarah F. Small Gender-related research in economics is experiencing a “remarkable rise” (Antman et al., 2024), examining both how gender shapes economic well-being and how gendered assumptions influence economic theory and methods. Yet, these insights rarely make it into the undergraduate economics classroom. The…
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Continue reading →: Can International Trade Help Save the Climate? Rethinking Trade as an Instrument of the Global Energy Transition
International trade is often portrayed as part of the climate problem. Goods travel across borders, production generates emissions, and global supply chains depend heavily on fossil fuels. Trade agreements are also frequently criticized for constraining governments’ ability to adopt environmental regulations or support domestic green industries. From this perspective, trade…
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Continue reading →: Rethinking Educational Leadership
Our new book Rethinking Educational Leadership focuses on both the theory and practice of educational leadership, as well as some applications. While previously we have expressed our discontent with the traditional view of leadership that views it in terms of roles and processes embedded in bureaucracies and organisations, we consider…
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Continue reading →: Before we called it sustainability: How family stories and everyday practices teach us to consume differently
A mother saves water left from cooking and pours it onto her plants. Another insists that food should never be thrown away. A child learns to use both sides of a sheet of paper. Lights and fans are switched off in empty rooms. Old newspapers, clothes and metal objects are…
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