Edmund Burke as an Economist

Edmund Burke : Politician What Burke Teaches Us About Defining Representation

Edmund Burke was a politician, not a traditional, canonical political theorist. His long, statesman’s career included a single term as an elected representative of Bristol. Burke developed the oft-cited “Burkean” (or trustee) model of representation from his own experiences as a legislator. Burke failed to secure re-election to the Bristol seat, and his difficulties there serve as a caution to ...

The Economist as Plumber

Will GEO Work? - An Economist View

* Corresponding author. ** This research was performed in the framework of the EC project GEO-BENE (www.geo-bene.eu), led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Abstract – In this paper we use a game-theoretical approach to model a global partnership in building global earth observation system. Our analysis of possible equilibrium solutions shows that only in the c...

What Does an Ecological Economist Do?

An Economist=s Perspective on Urban Design