Imagine a stressed professional checking this month’s salary , rising worries about how bills are stacking up, but there’s nothing left to save or put to the side. Stressed by life, they turn to retail therapy for comfort. It never disappoints. Suddenly, the new matte absolute lipstick from a designer brand appears. For only €50! Against all rational odds, it will most likely be bought. Why do people spend on luxuries when logic says the opposite? © Pixabay What is the lipst

From Filipino citizens to a new UN body, the largest polluters are being challenged in ground-breaking ways. © Unsplash The shape of climate justice is changing across the globe. Citizens and national governments in countries faced by the damage of climate change are pushing back at corporations that contribute the most. These developments are becoming more common as it is now easier to measure how much man-made climate change has contributed to the likelihood of specific nat

Even though centuries separate them, seventeenth-century France and twenty-first-century Europe are confronted with the same question: should society place its faith in laissez-faire policies, or should the state intervene when faced with a macroeconomic problem? Across time, it seems the economy repeatedly falls into the same dilemma. In detail, throughout the 17th century, France, under the reign of Louis XIV, was involved in decades of continuous warfare, including the Th

The future is created in the lecture halls of today. Do we want Neoclassical Economics to build this future alone? © Photo by  Henry Storck  on  Unsplash The Week of Economics Education  (Week van het Economieonderwijs) is an annual event in November that brings together academics from a range of roles across the Netherlands, with each day focusing on a separate level of Dutch education. On Tuesday at Radboud University the focus was on the University level, where a melting p