While George Osborne is crowing about the success of austerity, Simon Wren-lewis examines the high costs of Osborne’s failed economic policy.
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Simon Wren-Lewis: The economic and political cost of UK austerity
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Corporate profits boom in Australia undermines our capacity to national prosperity and well-being
You can apply this to any EU nation: ” a means of viewing exactly what has gone wrong with the Australian economy over the last two decades as successive governments have failed to prioritise general […]
Economics
Tim Jackson: ‘Everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile’
Fifty years on from Robert Kennedy’s historic speech on the limitations of the GDP at the University of Kansas in March 1968, Tim Jackson reflects on the failings of measurement and vision which still haunt […]
Climate Crisis
BBC: Climate change: UN emissions gap report a ‘thundering wake-up call’
Is anyone in the least surprised? National plans to cut carbon fall far short of what’s needed to avert dangerous climate change, according to the UN Environment Programme. Read here
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