23 October 2014

The Bubble Economy by Robert U. Ayres

Prof. Robert U. Ayres, a former IIASA scholar describes the roots of our bubble economy, the role of energy in the economy, climate change and the failures of austerity.

Robert U. Ayres, an American-born physicist and economist, is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Political Science at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, the international graduate business school. The book, published by the MIT Press, offers a new approach to trigger economic growth.

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Prof. Ayres will come to Vienna on 3 December 2014 to give a research seminar at the Vienna University of Economics and Business about the increasing importance of scarce metals in the electronics industries, and the forthcoming problems of discovery, extraction and recycling. For more details, click here


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