Asker Voldsgaard
@askervoldsgaard
PhD, University College London, @IIPP_UCL 🚀 Chair, Wellbeing Economy Lab @_WE_LA_, Following green finance, macro & industrial policy🌱
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https://nedskrivning.substack.com 28-05-2015 09:04:19
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++we are hiring++ Energy policy wonks inhabiting the Brussels bubble, we are looking for 🫵. Join the amazing Ludovic Suttor-Sorel to help shape debates on how to drive down the cost of a sustainable energy system in Europe. linkedin.com/jobs/view/4237… (fiscal policy wonks, see other opening)
A clever and critical take on the abundance proposition by Sandeep Vaheesan - a must read focusing in on the limits of the private sector. The Real Path to Abundance bostonreview.net/articles/the-r…
"never in the history of mankind have we seen such a rapid rise of any form of energy!" AukeHoekstra
I've written about the Savings and Investment Union, new Christine Lagarde European Central Bank European Commission plan to pay for Draghi's transformative ambitions. It wants Europeans to save/invest like Americans. But if we do that, we'll have to live like them too. ft.com/content/052e47…
New article published with Neil Wilson, josh ryan-collins, Tally Sticks, and Asker Voldsgaard The Self-Financing State: An Institutional Analysis of Government Expenditure, Revenue Collection and Debt Issuance Operations in the United Kingdom tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
As the government panics about bond market gyrations, its always useful to understand how the UK government actually finances itself: by creating new money, just like a bank. New paper with Asker Voldsgaard, Neil Wilson, Andrew Berkeley and Richard Tye. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Keynes, illustrated: “Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation.” H/t Joe Weisenthal, Dario Perkins