Posts Tagged ‘fair’

From cost- to externalities-based pricing

Friday, August 13th, 2010

This article is about something really simple, and yet so complex: setting a price.

A puzzling element of the current discussions about global warming is how often carbon neutrality seems to have become yet another marketing tool.

And this is a good starting point to discuss about prices and corporate social responsibility.

Fair weather friendship

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

If you read newspapers from around Europe over the last few days, you found an almost unanimous “thumbs down” on the choices for first European President and the first Foreign Affairs Secretary (it will be clear later why I use “alternative” job titles).

It is quite funny: the consensus bridges the Euro-sceptics and the Euro-nationalists.

Personally, I believe that the Euro-sceptics do not realize that the train already left the station, and now the issue is only how fast and where it will go.

As for the Euro-nationalists: do you really believe that it is possible in the XXI century to rebuild a Charlemagne-style empire?