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Bill Mitchell – Political Economy Thought and Praxis Post Pandemic
This is the first in a series of talks by Bill Mitchell presented by the Helsinki Centre for Global Political Economy headed by Heikki Patomäki
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John Treat – Unions: Confronting the Crisis in Social Democracy and “Just Transition”
In order to be effective in stopping the climate crisis unions will have to build alliances with a wide range of progressive social forces around shared commitments. John Treat is a researcher with Trade Unions […]
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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.
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Positive Money – Post COVID: Big corporations dominate government’s Build Back Better council
This is being replicated in the EU By Hannah Dewhirst, Campaigner at Positive Money Cross-posted from Positive Money The government’s new Build Back Better council – meant to help the UK recover from the impact […]
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IASS: Carbon Pricing’s Disappointing Effect on the Pace of Technological Change
In order to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, the world must reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Carbon pricing – recently introduced in Germany for transportation and heating – is viewed by many […]
Climate Crisis
Albena Azmanova – Precarity, populism, and prospects for a green democratic transformation
The proper Left alternative to the class struggle is subverting capitalism by mobilizing an ever wider and more diverse anti-capitalist front. Albena Azmanova is an associate professor of politics at the University of Kent’s Brussels […]
Climate Crisis
Good News Network: 4 Major Asian Nations Cancel 80% of Planned Coal Power Projects After Fossil Fuel Market Crashes in 2020
While the EU is continuing its coal policy for almost another 20 years, many Asian nations – not China – are changing course. Odd, they did a much better job of dealing with COVID as […]
Climate Crisis
Giorgos Kallis – Limits, degrowth and environmental justice
On Malthus and limits, ideology of scarcity and power, degrowth, biopolitics and mal-adaptation.
Austerity
Euro Intelligence – On the next German chancellor
The Eurointelligence team discusses Armin Laschet’s victory and a variety of confusing political crises. Listen here
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Paul Brown – Carbon capture and storage won’t work, critics say
Carbon capture and storage, trapping carbon before it enters the atmosphere, is crucial in all the mainstream plans for countering climate change. Just one problem: it does not work. Paul Brown, a founding editor of […]