This great data visualisation from the NY Times comes to us via a really fascinating website called Information is Beautiful. It represents the sales in billions of today’s dollars of the various music formats over time.

The world faces two urgent demands. First, the global economy is in crisis and needs to be turned around. Second, scientists tell us that time is running out on tackling climate change and we are putting our planet at risk. The conventional wisdom is that those two demands are competing. The conventional wisdom is wrong. The pivotal factor will be achieving a dramatic increase in society’s “carbon productivity”—the amount of economic output created per ton of greenhouse gas emissions sent into the atmosphere. The concept of carbon productivity follows a familiar logic: just as the productivity of labor and capital can be measured—by weighing the amount of output created per hour worked or dollar invested—the productivity of carbon use can be readily measured as well.

In recent years, cognitive scientists have turned in increasing numbers to the study of human happiness, and one of their central findings is that we are not very good at predicting how happy or unhappy something will make us. Given time, survivors of tragedies and traumas report themselves nearly as happy as they were before, and people who win the lottery or achieve lifelong dreams don't see any long-term increase in happiness.

At last a book that comprehensively reveals the true facts about sustainable energy in a form that is both highly readable and entertaining.

The fact that the speculative economy for cash and commodities accounts for over 95% of economic transactions, while people actually using money and consuming commodities constitute less than 5% tells us something important. Real supply and demand have almost nothing to do with prices. We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

Americans haul 82 million tons of trash to recycling centers each year. But does it pay off—for the environment or the economy? PM has some real answers.

I’ve learned that the World Bank now offers an API for several of its data sets on development, governance, and business conditions, plus a collection of photos.

Why in the world would anyone take the time to write complicated software programs for free? It's a good question, one that has piqued the curiosity of a number of economists, who wonder what benefits, if any, lie behind the burgeoning "open source" move

At some point in your life, you will wake up and discover that you have more money than time. And you will then realize that you should start doing things differently, which means not walking four blocks to find an ATM that doesn't charge a fee, driving f

Physical money is disappearing and we are moving towards a cashless society where hard cash only exists to avoid taxes or to buy illegal services and goods. A suitcase of money even had a magic cinematic effect making people do or believe in almost anythi

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his book, Predictably Irrational, clearly sets out the behaviouralists' argument that average people are all far more irrational and more human than economists allow.

Article about the fundamental difference between a steady-state economy and continuous growth economy. A steady state — a system that permits qualitative development but not aggregate quantitative growth.

"It was this latter concern that led Charles Kettering, director of General Motors Research, to write a 1929 magazine article called “Keep the Consumer Dissatisfied.” He wasn’t suggesting that manufacturers produce shoddy products. Along with many o

The corporations would have you believe that the combination promises "economies of scale" -- that redundant positions can be eliminated, duplicate processes eliminated, volume discounts obtained from suppliers, and efficiencies obtained by combining oper

The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while we ride upon it.

Until the development of water and wind power, humanity burned carbon-based fuels like wood and coal to power our civilization. These very same fuels are now polluting the air and water with heavy metals, ozone pollution, and acid rain.

Martijn Aslander leeft van donaties. In dit artikel gaat hij in op hoe dat werkt, en legt hij uit dat het gaat om toevoegen van waarde.

The Simple Dollar is for those of us who need both cents and sense: people fighting debt and bad spending habits while building a financially secure future and still affording a latte or two. Our busy lives are crazy enough without having to compare five

Why do Americans spend so much time and money performing menial tasks when they don't have to? What's with all the knitting, gardening, and — as the Census Bureau dubs it — "cooking for fun"? Why do we fill our hours with leisure activities that look

Isn’t it puzzling that so many middle-aged Americans are spending so much of their time and money performing menial labors when they don’t have to? Just as the radio and phonograph proved to be powerful substitutes for the piano, the forces of technol

Gapminder turns boring statistics into something new and interesting, using visualizations and animateions. The Gapminder Goal: enable you to make sense of the world by having fun with statistics.