by Mark Swilling | Oct 6, 2019 | Blog
It’s been quite a week. Started off last Friday with 2 talks at the Reframing Economics conference at Wits – one on the green transition and the other on non-equilibrium Economics. On Tuesday i did a keynote at Africa Powerweek in Sandton on investment trends in...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 6, 2019 | Blog
(This is the version that was online on 23 September 2019 – the next day an edited version appeared.) The President has just sent this message to the UN Secretary General – the clearest commitment ever made to the South African energy transition. I’m blown...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 6, 2019 | Blog
This is my sixth year on the DBSA Board, serving as Chair of the Board from Jan to Sept 2019. At the AGM last Friday my position as Deputy Chair for the next three years was confirmed. I will also be the Chairperson of the Infrastructure Delivery and Knowledge...
by Mark Swilling | Oct 6, 2019 | Blog
On Thursday I was invited by the Economics Department at Stellenbosch University to come discuss my controversial article in Daily Maverick on macro-economic policy (see link below). Needless to say, they did not agree with my critique of ‘expansionary...
by Mark Swilling | Aug 15, 2019 | Blog
It is really hard to believe that it was twenty years ago that a small group of us started dreaming and imagining what eventually emerged as the Lynedoch EcoVillage and the Sustainability Institute. It always amuses me when people assume there was some sort of grand...
by Mark Swilling | Aug 13, 2019 | Blog
Whew, these past weeks have been a roller-coaster ride of note. They started with co-teaching the Globalization, Governance and Development module with Prof Gael Giraud, from Paris. Gael is an extra-ordinary mix: up until a few weeks ago he was Chief Economist of the...
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