Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – Why Green QE and MMT can co-exist
How Green QE, which is an idea that Richard co-created with Colin Hines a decade ago, can address some of the key problems within QE.
Green New Deal
Economics
Dean Baker – Debt and Deficits, Yet Again
With a Democrat in the White House, the season of the deficit hawk has returned. So, it’s worth going through the old arguments just to remind everyone that the best response to these people is […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – Is a Crash likely? The Uncomfortable Answer is ‘Yes’
Crashes are often predicted, but the reasons behind these predictions can be interesting as in this article by Richard Murphy Richard Murphy is a Visiting Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of […]
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose – EU Citizens: “We do believe in fairies. We do! We do!”
What few seem to register is the complete failure of Europe’s political class in 2020, not to mention the missed opportunities that the COVID crisis offered. This is not only with regard to health, but […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – The economy after coronavirus
The government has learned to use QE to fund the coronavirus crisis, which is all well and good except for the fact that there are significant wealth inequalities arising as a result as some in […]
Climate Crisis
Timothée Parrique – A Response to Yanis Varoufakis: Star Trek and Degrowth
On November 26th, Yanis Varoufakis appeared on The Jolly Swagman Podcast. For all of us economics nerds, this is the best Christmas present one could ask for. What threw me off my chair was Varoufakis’ opinion on “degrowth.” As a […]
Climate Crisis
Ian Gough – From efficiency to sufficiency – the path to a just transformation
It is great we have so many concepts to reverse climate change. But how to stop governments prioritising profit and environmental destruction? Ian Gough is author of Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Steve Keen’s Predictions for 2021
Earlier this year Phil Dobbie asked Steve keen for his predictions for 2020. Without a whiff of COVID -19 IN THE AIR, Steve talked of a capitalist economy on government life support. On that he […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis – Designing a Postcapitalist Future in the Midst of the Pandemic
Doubts that our world is morally indefensible become unforgiveable when even the bankers of the ultra-rich, along with the bailiffs working diligently on their behalf, are panicking about excessive inequality. Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance […]
Climate Crisis
Susan Paulson and Jason Hickel – “Everything you wanted to know about Degrowth (But didn’t know who to ask).”
This is our podcast from 9 December 2020