Climate Crisis
Anya Zoledziowski: Shell’s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It’s Capturing
A new Global Witness report found that it has the same carbon footprint per year as 1.2 million gas-powered cars. Read Here
Year: 2022
Economics
James K. Galbraith – The Case for Strategic Price Policies
For four decades, mainstream economists have slammed the door on the idea that the US government might intervene to manage the prices of certain goods. But this reactionary mindset has no sound basis, and today’s […]
Economics
Romaric Godin: Price Controls – a Neglected Tool Against Inflation
This is a further article concerning Isabella Weber’s article concerning price controls. Romaric Godin joined Mediapart in May 2017, where he writes about macroeconomics, particularly French macroeconomics. This article was originally posted on Mediapart (with […]
Climate Crisis
Andrew Stirling – Does the delusion of ‘climate control’ do more harm than good to climate disruption?
This is the second in a series of four blog posts on the climate by STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, under the heading: ‘Controlling a stable planetary climate – or caring for a complex changing Earth?’ […]
Environment
BBC: Serbia revokes Rio Tinto lithium mine permits following protests
Serbia has withdrawn the exploration licences of Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto following weeks of protests over plans for a lithium mine. Read Here
Economics
Robin McAlpine – The Great Realisation
The way attitudes have changed during the pandemic and thephenomenon that is currently being called the ‘Great Resignation’, the remarkable and unprecedented instances of mass resignations from (mostly) low-skill employment right across the economy. Robin […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: In the Superstate
Review of Christopher J. Bickerton and Carlo Invernizzi Accetti (2021), Technopopulism: The New Logic of Democratic Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Read Here
Economics
Macro & Cheese – Bill Mitchell: Duality
Listen Here We call this episode “Duality” because it covers what Bill Mitchell describes as separate realities experienced by the elites and the masses. We do not occupy the same universe. The results of this […]
Climate Crisis
Phys Org: ‘Throwaway economy’ thwarting climate goals: report
70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions are linked to the manufacturing and use of products. Read Here
Climate Crisis
Lorena Cotza, Ouafa Haddioui – The world’s food systems are in crisis, and big agribusiness is at its heart
Public finance has a key role to play in agriculture. Instead of propping up corporate interests, it should learn from local producers Lorena Cotza is the communications lead at the Coalition for Human Rights in […]