Austerity
Richard Murphy – Globalisation is failing
Richard Murphy on a number of topics concerning economics and politics in Britain, but as is often the case in political economy, much of it is applicable for most of Europe.
Green New Deal
Climate Crisis
Democracy versus Sustainability by Boris Frankel
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Currently the market is flooded with books about climate change. Many more are on their way. The message of most of these is “The situation has gone from grim […]
Climate Crisis
Politics Theory Other – Jason Hickel on how degrowth will save the world (part two)
Jason Hickel returns to PTO for the second part of a two part interview on his book, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. We talked about the concept of ‘green growth’, and […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis – On why Croatia shouldn’t adopt the Euro, German politics and much more
Yanis Varoufakis – whatever you may think of him – is one of those thinkers one should regularly check in on. Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, politician, leader of MeRA25 and DiEM25, former Greece’s […]
Aviation
Julia Steinberger – Living well within planetary limits: is it possible? And what will it take?
This is a talk by Julia Steinberger from 24 November 2021 Hier die deutsche Version:
Climate Crisis
Politics Theory Other – Jason Hickel on how degrowth will save the world
Jason Hickel joins PTO to talk about his book, Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World. In part one of the interview we discussed the comprehensive and all-encompassing character of the ecological crisis […]
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine: Start Counting – why a Green New Deal needs to be quantified
Robin McAlpine’s talk in our series “Economic beyond the Swabian hausfrau” from 9 November 2021 You can’t save the world if you don’t do the work. A Green New Deal is at heart a large […]
Climate Crisis
Visionary realism: A green future beyond capitalism – Yanis Varoufakis, Ann Pettifor & Noam Chomsky
“There is no alternative”, “it’s the end of history” in the shadow of the 2008 crash, the environmental crisis and ongoing COVID19 pandemic, never has the hubris of these words been more striking. Nevertheless if […]
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – COP 26 failed. We need not. But we have to get on with beating the forces that want to kill life in earth. Time is not our side.
It is right to be angry. There have seldom been such shit shows comparable to COP26. It is amazing what mainstream media and scientists, who feel they have to be positive, are trying making of […]
Aviation
Robin McAlpine: Der Countdown läuft – warum ein Green New Deal quantitativ bestimmt werden muss
Robin McAlpine’s Vortrag in unserer Reihe “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” vom 9. November 2021 You can view the original English version here Man kann die Welt nicht retten ohne die notwendige Arbeit: […]