Climate Crisis
Peter Bofinger – What are the Constraints for a Green New Deal?
The New Deal has become a leading symbol of our age. But what will it take to bring about the next New Deal?
Solutions
Climate Crisis
Asbjørn Wahl – Trade Unions and Climate Change: the Need for a Programmatic Shift
Up to now unions have not played a terribly important role in combatting the climate crisis, suspecting it is just another excuse to attack workers’ rights and destroy jobs. But as we all must learn, […]
Austerity
Robin McAlpine: Stop Feigning Confusion at Public Ownership; it’s not Complicated
When one reads an article like this, it becomes painfully clear how bankrupt Europe’s political class is. While politicians pretend they are the high priests of complicated truths, which we daily realise are lies, we […]
Climate Crisis
Keith Baker and Geoff Wood – Our Time is Up: Why We Have Just 12 Years to Eliminate the Fossil Fuel Industry and Transform Society
Why is it than in the rest of Europe is not even thinking in this direction? For the simple reason that they do not want real change. Dr Keith Baker and Dr Geoff Wood argue […]
Climate Crisis
The Green New Deal Group – The Green New Deal: How to Make it Happen
This briefing explains how the Green New Deal Bill, the first attempt to legislate for a Green New Deal in the UK would work, and how it would transform almost every aspect of our lives […]
Deregulation
Guy Standing – Rentier Capitalism is Breeding Neo-Fascism
Faced with a crisis of awesome proportions, we must develop a strategy for re-embedding the economy in society. Guy Standing is Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, Fellow of the UK Academy of Social […]
Economics
Jeremy Smith – Rethinking Britain: the Fundamental Choice the Nation Faces in the Upcoming General Election
Probably nowhere in Europe is there so much energy and thought being invested in the search for a way out of the dead end that neo-liberalism has led us into. “Rethinking Britain – Policy Ideas […]
Finance
Ann Pettifor – The case for the Green New Deal
To protect the systems that sustain life on earth, we need to do more than just reimagine the economy – we have to change everything. From one of the original thinkers of the program that […]
Climate Crisis
Robert Fox: Carbon, tobacco and economists: a modern tale
A brilliant explanation discrediting carbon tax against simple prohibition of excessive CO². Read here
Environment
Transport & Environment – French court’s palm oil ruling a victory against ‘fake green fuels’
Why is the EU not acting on this? Once again the mineral oil lobby is dictating EU policy. Transport & Environment’s mission is to promote, at EU and global level, a transport policy based on […]