Economics

Halcyon curates the most significant money-related content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with money-related challenges.

Halcyon curates the most significant economic content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with economics-related challenges.

Fundamental shifts in the world of work are eroding traditional social safety nets. Could a universal basic income (UBI) be the solution? UBI isn’t a new idea, according to the Basic Income Earth Network, which  says it was originally ignored, but growing fears surrounding job automation have stoked an interest in basic income.

Please see below selected recent basic income-related change.

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Please see below key recent developments concerning trade:

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• What's Changing? - Economics
• What's Changing? - Emerging Markets

November 2019

• International trade rules and policies are deeply relevant to environmental performance. On the one hand, trade flows, rules and policies can exacerbate environmental challenges as consumers regularly purchase goods produced or disposed of in unsustainable ways in other countries therefore 'exporting' environmental costs. On the other hand, trade rules and flows can be harnessed to support environmental agendas and impact commercial and trade prospects positively, according to Chatham House.

Please see below selected recent economic developments.

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• What's New? - Economics
• What's Changing? - Economics: Money
• What's Changing? - Economics: Emerging Markets
• What's Changing? - Economics: Trade

November 2019

Please see below selected recent emerging markets-related change. (Until mid-2018 the focus was primarily on Africa.)

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• What's Changing? - Development
• What's Changing? - Economics
• What's Changing? - Trade

December 2019

10 years on from chastening and often stunning images of the impact that global recession is having - right now. The Great Depression Revisited? The clothes and the cars and the laptops suggest "not yet", but over the coming months, who knows?

Still, the blooming sunflower in the last shot is a touching piece of photojournalism, suggesting that hope springs eternal or, as Roy Harper put it, "through all destruction flies new dawn".

Halcyon curates the most significant basic income-related content from carefully selected source. Please contact us if you'd like our help with basic income-related challenges.

Please see below selected recent sufficiency-related change.

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May 2019

• Contemporary internet shopping conjures a perfect storm of choice anxiety. Research has consistently held that people who are presented with a few options make better, easier decisions than those presented with many. It has also shown that having many options is particularly confounding when the information available on them is limited or confusing.

March 2019