There is no shortage of housing in Britain. There is however speculation, which is driving prices up, resulting in empty housing.
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Ann Pettifor: Why building more homes will not solve Britain’s housing crisis
Deregulation
Bill Mitchell: Financial services agreements – the EU as a neoliberal, corporatist project
Bill Mitchell on one of the EU´s current neo-liberal mega projects: TISA (“Trade in Services Agreement”). Read here
Climate Crisis
The New Green Deal Group: How to Pay for the Green New Deal: A Briefing
Debate in the 2019 election campaign in the UK has focussed on whether spending plans proposed by political parties are affordable. This, the Group argues, is to fundamentally misunderstand the way that government investment works. […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The Covid trade-off between health and the economy did not exist
Our health systems and labour markets have been pushed into unworkable states by the fiscal cuts, outsourcing, privatisation, casualisation, wage restraint, etc – all pursued in the name of making us all better off and […]
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