Rod Dacombe (2011) Can we argue against it? Performance management and state funding of voluntary organizations in the UK. Public Money & Management, 31(3), 159-166. Say you volunteer to help an old lady carrying groceries from the store. Should she thank you if you drag the bags across the street and break everything that she…
I have previously highlighted articles that show an increasing interest in cleaner energy/environment within pro-market circles that used to be fairly dismissive of such things. I’ll be moving on to other topics, but I wanted to close by bringing attention to the following article: ‘Clean Energy‘, by David Battersby on the Adam Smith Institute’s blog.…
I normally do not like to even mention articles in company blogs because they are necessarily biased. After all, they’re marketing. But take a look at this article: Stranded assets: do they have a future? The post was written by Bruce Menzies, who is the Chairman and co-founder of PAL, an UK based company that…
This week I want to call attention to a special report on The Ecologist by Sebastian Ordoñez and Daniel MacMilllen Voskoboynik entitled “A multinational fracking boom begins in Colombia”. As hinted by the title, the report is about the increasing interest in fracking within the Colombian territory, where the government has already given up to…
Trump unravelled havoc this week in regards to energy and climate change when he signed an executive order that aims to rollback Obama’s Clean Power Act. In and of itself, this is definitely not a ‘hidden’ issue. A lot has been written about the issue. As such, I will not even summarise it. There is,…
The articles that I want to highlight relate to a discussion that raged on in several energy- and oil-related outlets this week: are OPEC’s cuts working? Before that, a small background. We don’t know what the price of oil would be right now without the cuts but prices did increase slightly from the point cuts…
I have been getting very interesting climate-related articles from ‘right-wing’ sources. Certainly more than the usual. This week I want to pay particular attention to two of them. The first is a piece by Tim Worstall on the Adam Smith Institute’s blog about Shell’s divestment from oil sands and the subsequent call for carbon pricing.…