Housing too has become “a commodity to be exploited”. This is nothing new, as Henry George recognised 150 years ago. This fact includes many danger, and as we saw with Grenfell Tower, not only social and economic.
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Economics
The Local it: Italy announces plan to take over struggling Alitalia airline
Instead of pumping billions into private airlines, nations that need one should nationalise one flag carrier for 1 cent while letting the discount airlines go bankrupt, and start charging a fair price that also include […]
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy: My vision for a Green New Deal
Prolific economic thinker Richard Murphy, preparing for a series of lectures in Glasgow and Edinburgh, at a Commonspace Forum, outlines his latest vision for a Green New Deal, as a global imperative, and incidentally a […]
Finance
Evgeny Morozov: From Airbnb to city bikes, the ‘sharing economy’ has been seized by big business
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