Monday, January 14, 2008
China as "green peril"
I will be giving a talk on China as the new “green peril” at the London School of Economics at 2pm on 5 March.
Labels: Asia, china, environment, speeches
About Me
- Name: Daniel Ben-Ami
- Location: London, United Kingdom
I have worked as a professional journalist for 22 years, during which time I have contributed to numerous publications including the Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Prospect, Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday Times. My book on global finance, Cowardly Capitalism (Wiley, 2001), was recommended by the Baker Library of Harvard Business School . I also contributed a chapter to Cultural Difference, Media Memories: Anglo-American Images of Japan (Cassell, 1997). I am working on a book on contemporary society's unease with popular prosperity. To contact me you can email danielbenami AT yahoo.com
Selected articles
- Why bear markets are talking bull
- Myths of Wall Street crisis
- Alistair Darling's split personality
- Capitalism's cheerleaders lose faith
- On Indian child labour
- Fed rate cut
- Blinkered consumerism
- A global working class?
- Debate on population (p3-5 of PDF)
- A sneaky attack on prosperity
- The dangers of crying Wolfowitz
- On Davos 2007
- Worse than Scooge
- The changing meaning of equality
- American Express RED campaign
Video recordings
- Battle of Ideas 2008 session
- Global inequality on Worldbytes
- London poverty on Worldbytes
- Chinese pollution on friction tv
- Battle for Affluence
- Debating climate change on Sky News
- Culture of corruption debate
My reviews
- Supercapitalism
- Wall-E: a waste of space
- Enoughism? Don’t buy it
- Galbraith's Affluent Society
- Africa's 'Malthusian trap'
- Towards an age of abundance
- The Bottom Billion
- Poor Story on Africa
- Jeffrey Sachs Reith lecture
- Oliver James on "affluenza"
- Indur Goklany on human progress
- Stern report on climate change
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Avner Offer on affluence
- Enron documentary
- BBC happiness programme
- Benjamin Friedman on growth
- Jonathon Porritt on capitalism
- Jeffrey Sachs on poverty
- Blair's Commission for Africa
- Martin Wolf on globalisation
- John Kenneth Galbraith on economics
- Clive Hamilton's Growth Fetish
- George Monbiot's Age of Consent
My essays
- China is no "green peril"
- No 'paradox of prosperity'
- Who's afraid of economic growth
- Why people hate fat Americans
- The dismal quackery of eco-economics
Audio recording
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- Angus Maddison
- Bjorn Lomborg
- Campaign for Fighting Diseases
- Cato Institute
- Center for the Study of Inequality
- China Digital Times
- Climate Debate Daily
- Commission on Growth and Development
- Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Culture Wars - world development
- developmentdata.org
- Ecomyths
- Economic growth resources
- The Economist
- Eldis
- Globalisation topic guide
- Future Cities Project
- Golden Myths
- Happiness & Public Policy
- Indur Goklany's papers
- Inequality.com (Stanford)
- International Monetary Fund
- James Heartfield
- James Woudhuysen
- Junk Science
- Library of Economics
- MDG Monitor
- Millennium Development Goals
- Numberwatch
- Penn World Table
- Progessdaily
- Real Clear Markets
- Spiked-online
- Unctad
- United Nations Development Programme
- World Bank
- World Development Indicators 2008
- World Trade Organisation
- Worldbytes video news channel
- Worldwrite
- Yale Economic Growth Center
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