Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: Natural climate solutions – code for financialisation of nature and profits for capital
McKinsey and The World Economic Forum – What can go wrong (for the 1%)? Read here
Inequality
Economics
Daniela Gabor, Sebastian Kohl: “My home is asset class”
Want to understand the incoming Age of Institutional Landlords – minting assets out of your houses – and the state’s role in it? Read Here
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 […]
Economics
Chris Dillow: Power, not prices
Inflation in the UK Read here
Economics
Stewart Lansley – To build better post-Covid societies, we must break the high inequality, high poverty cycle
The past 40 years have seen a remarkable – and prolonged – global experiment in inequality. While the post-war years of social reform led a new drive towards greater equality, that trend was then set […]
Economics
Hanna Szymborska, Jan Toporowski – How Inequality Leads to Industrial Feudalism
In a society where asset ownership is incredibly unequal, social mobility become severely diminished Hanna Szymborska is Senior Lecturer in Economics, Birmingham City Business School Jan Toporowski Professor of Economics and Finance, SOAS Cross-posted from […]
Climate Crisis
Dirk Arne Heyen – What is fair? On the diversity of social aspects of environmental policy
What are the social impacts of pollution, climate change and policy responses? What social inequalities exist? And how would benefits and burdens be fairly distributed? The diversity of social aspects and equity issues must be […]
Economics
Barbara Magalhães Teixeira – The potential of degrowth and buen vivir in addressing underdevelopment and conflict in the Global South
The perspective being offered by Degrowth in the Southern Hemisphere Barbara Magalhães Teixeira is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science at Lund University, Sweden Cross-posted from Degrowth.de unsplash.com/photos/2714ww65eqQ What is the potential role of […]
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
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 […]