Climate Crisis
Common Weal -The Common Home Plan
Why is it that a small think tank of the Scottish Left is able to do something that no government in the world is capable of: Planning a Green New Deal in detail? Common Weal […]
Green New Deal
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Something Remarkable just Happened this August: How the Pandemic has Sped up the Passage to Post-Capitalism
It is daunting how everyone seems to want to ignore the acute crisis in which we find ourselves Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of the MeRA25 party and Professor of […]
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – How do we pay for the Green New Deal
The idea may now be popular around the world, and is seen as the platform for creating a sustainable economy by many, but it is by no means a done deal. One of the biggest […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – From Furlough to Meltdown is a Matter of Months
As World War I approached, Europe seemed determined to ignore the situation. Then the conflagration came. It seems Europe is once again living in blissful oblivion. Even among intellectuals and economists just a handful comprehend […]
Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: We can have full employment again in a green world
We can have full employment again. We can choose a Just Urgent Sustainable Transformation Read Here
Finance
Richard Murphy – How to Take Power
So, how to take power? To some extent, simply ignore the issue of power is my answer. Simply prove that you have a better answer. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, […]
Climate Crisis
Jenny Patient – Climate Change and COVID-19: What these Crises tell us about a Modernising Approach
Why an ecological approach is necessary for tackling contemporary global crises Jenny Patient is a Doctoral Researcher, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield Cross-posted from the SPERI website From my little thesis-writing […]
Climate Crisis
Mariana Mazzucato – Green Growth and the Right Kind of Innovation
Without governments investing more actively we are not going to solve our current problems, whether the climate crisis, growing inequality, or the energy transition. So says Mariana Mazzucato, celebrated economist and adviser to today’s top […]
Climate Crisis
Marshall Auerback – Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right
COVID-19 will force us to rethink many of the assumptions underlying existing GND proposals. Marshall Auerback is a market analyst and commentator. This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent […]
Climate Crisis
Albena Azmanova, James Galbraith – Disaster Capitalism or the Green New Deal
“The task — as at the start of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal a century ago — is to conquer fear, anxiety, instability, insecurity, and precarity.” Albena Azmanova of the University of Kent James K. Galbraith […]