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Laurie Macfarlane

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Climate Crisis

Laurie Macfarlane – Scotland is on the global frontlines of The Great Net-Zero Land Grab

November 29, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

As investors look to profit from the carbon-offset gold rush, demand for land is soaring. But letting Big Finance restore nature may come at a cost Laurie Macfarlane is economics editor at openDemocracy, and a […]

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Climate Crisis

Laurie Macfarlane – Tackling climate breakdown and delivering economic justice must go hand in hand

October 28, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Global leaders will fail to address the climate crisis unless they confront its root cause: an unjust economic system that is killing the planet Laurie Macfarlane is economics editor at openDemocracy, and a research associate […]

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Laurie Macfarlane – Why 2021 is humanity’s make-or-break moment on climate breakdown

January 26, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

COVID-19 and climate change are two sides of the same coin. To overcome both we must confront their root cause: an economic system that is killing the planet. Laurie Macfarlane is economics editor at openDemocracy, […]

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Economics

Laurie Macfarlane – Looking Ahead After COVID: What Role for the State?

December 6, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

For the few that are watching developments closely, we are to be recipients of a Brown Deal,  states rescuing climate destructive corporations just as the banks were saved after the Global Financial Crisis. Laurie Macfarlane […]

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Economics

Renegade Inc: Josh Ryan-Collins, Laurie Mcfarlane – Bailing Out or Bankrupting Britain?

July 4, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Boris Johnson said that this was going to be a brilliant year for the UK. But not only has the Treasury had to indiscriminately bail out many UK businesses but the governor of the Bank […]

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Austerity

Laurie Macfarlane – Corona Crisis: By Protecting Rentier Interests, we are making the Most Vulnerable pay for the Crisis

May 13, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Covid-19 has sharpened the divide between landlords and tenants, and debtors and creditors. We all must ask: whose side are we on? Laurie Macfarlane is economics editor at openDemocracy, and a research associate at the […]

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Economics

Laurie Macfarlane – New Economics are the Method: the Goal is to Change the World

October 31, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The set of economic ideas that have dominated politics for the past 40 years are rapidly losing legitimacy in the face of multiple crises, and the idea of economics as a ​‘value free’ science is starting […]

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Economics

Laurie Macfarlane – We already live in a planned economy – we just need to take the steering wheel

March 12, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Market arrangements always favour certain outcomes over others, and ensure that social arrangements stay within set parameters. Laurie Macfarlane is economics editor at openDemocracy, and a research associate at the UCL Institute for Innovation and […]

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Economics

Laurie Macfarlane – Why the distribution of wealth has more to do with power than productivity

September 30, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The distribution of wealth has little to do with contribution or productivity, and everything to do with politics and power. Laurie macfarlane is Economics Editor at openDemocracy Cross-posted from Open Democracy Image: Glenn Halog, CC […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

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Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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