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 […]
Solutions
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – Bringing Climate into Accounting
This is a project that Richard and others have been working on very hard. It may appear boring, but it is a brilliant system of control of corporate destruction of the environment.
Economics
Mathew Lawrence – Data and Work
WORK is one of the areas of life that has been most obviously and profoundly re-shaped by the pandemic. We have experienced an unprecedented global experiment in working from home, one that employers are treating […]
Economics
Valerie Vande Panne – Re-Localizing Industry, One Thing at a Time
This is something that the EU would do its best to stop, claiming it to be in violation of competition rules: international corporations being prioritised over citizens. Valerie Vande Panne is a writing fellow at […]
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
Dean Baker – An Economic Survival Package, not a Stimulus Package
Although about the USA the economic questions are the same as in the EU – and the policies are not that different. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy […]
Energy
Inside Climate News – What’s a Virtual Power Plant?
An interesting possibility, which would help reduce the power of big electricity providers and their destructive energy monopoly. Interestingly Italy has initiated a programme that has some similar features. By Dan Gearino Cross-posted from Inside […]
Economics
Dean Baker – The $24 an Hour Minimum Wage
This may not be about Europe, but as always with Dean Baker, there are a number of interesting thoughts in this piece that are relevant here as well. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at […]
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 […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis – The Eurozone is Grappling with Crisis, Class war & the North-South Divide
An interview with Yanis Varoufakis concerning the current crisis of the Eurozone. Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of the MeRA25 party and Professor of Economics at the University of Athens. […]