Economics
Steve Keen – The Coming Financial Crisis: Economist Issues New Warning
Following the covid crisis comes the financial crisis.
Solutions
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – Degrowth: A Response to Branko Milanovic
Capitalism has put enormous strain on ecological interdependence, bringing us closer to tipping points where the earth’s resilience becomes exhausted and intensifying feedback loops precipitate more and more interrelated crises. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist […]
Austerity
Richard Murphy – Britain: We are heading for 5 Million Unemployed and a Fixation with Balanced Budgets will Mean that Cost will have to be Accounted for by Economists who have Doomed these People to Despair
Britain in not worse than the EU – just ahead of it. So have a look into your future. Richard Murphy is a Visiting Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – Why can’t we have Hypothecated Savings, Provided by the Government?
How many people have we seen lose their money with speculative investments that do not serve society. Richard Murphy offers an alternative. And do not be intimidated by the term “Hypothecated”. Richard Murphy is a […]
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – We face an economic crisis. What are the options available to us?
In principle this is relevant for every nation in Europe. But what are we getting? Big money for big corporations that are destroying the environment.
Climate Crisis
Paul Brown – Nuclear Power Hinders Fight against Climate Change
Countries investing in renewables are achieving carbon reductions far faster than those which opt to back nuclear power. Paul Brown, a founding editor of Climate News Network, is a former environment correspondent of The Guardian […]
Climate Crisis
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World by Jason Hickel
Book Review by Justin H. Vassallo The window for countries to alter earth’s frightening ecological trajectory is rapidly passing. As climate change has morphed into a climate crisis over the past twenty years, the proposed […]
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – Degrowth and MMT: A Thought Experiment
The progressive pieces are coming together. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works on political economy and global justice. He teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. His most recent book, Less is More, just appeared. […]
Climate Crisis
Geoff Davies – Neoclassical Economics III: a Machine to Destroy the World
The false nostrums of the pseudo-science of neoclassical economics have been used to create a system that promotes endlessly increasing consumption of resources and endless elaboration of technology. This system already operates far beyond the […]
Climate Crisis
Oxfam – Carbon Emissions of Richest 1 Percent more than double the emissions of the poorest half of humanity
The planet’s fast-shrinking carbon budget should be used to improve conditions of world’s poorest Read the report here The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon […]