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Wim Naudé

Professor of the Economics of Innovation, Trade and Development, RWTH Aachen University and University of Coimbra
  • Germany

About Wim Naudé

Wim Naudé is Professor of Innovation, Trade and Development at RWTH Aachen University in Germany and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Coimbra University in Portugal. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. A graduate of the University of Warwick in the UK, Wim has held appointments at the University of Oxford, United Nations University and University of Maastricht. He is among the top 2% of scientists according to Elsevier /Stanford University and lives in Maastricht, the Netherlands. He is the author  and editor of several Palgrave Macmillan books, including "Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales" and  "Entrepreneurship and Economic Development. "

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Guns, Oil and Oligarchs: How an elite destroys planet and people for profit.
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Guns, Oil and Oligarchs: How an elite destroys planet and people for profit.

The collective "West" still has it good. However, optimism is gone, and relative and absolute measures of economic well-being have been declining steadily in recent decades. These declines are a direct consequence of a deeply entrenched and self-perpetuating system, a Guns-Oil-Oligarchy nexus.

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