Has Rachel Reeves misread Elinor Ostrom’s contribution to green economics?
Rachel Reeves, assuming that Labour win the next General Election as current opinion polls indicate, is likely to be Keir Starmer’s Chancellor of the Exchequer. Britain’s finances are in a…
Degrowth: Resource Guide
Image credit via pasa47 under CC BY Given the worsening climate emergency, many environmentalists on the left are talking about degrowth – a model of economic thinking which rejects the…
The Bank of England has taken a step towards accountability. But it needs to go further.
This Tuesday the Bank of England conceded to pressure to make public the names of the firms it was supporting. But it also imposed conditions on partaking in the facility.…
The “economy vs lives” narrative is a myth
The current crisis has upended the status quo. The ideas that we as Greens have been championing for a long time, have come to the forefront of public and political…
Bail out deserving people, not irresponsible corporations
Our government's fiscal strategy seems designed to exacerbate already-worsening economic conditions and pick up where the failures of 2008 left off. In the coming weeks, months, years the CEOs of…
We can’t let the coronavirus induced economic crisis drive a mass investment in carbon intensive industries
By every conventional measure the UK economy is in crisis. And it's set to only get worse. Like in every recent economic crisis, central banks are stepping in and deploying…
Economics as if the planet mattered: Ann Pettifor’s The Case for the Green New Deal
Image credit via TEDxUU, Creative Commons Having just finished Naomi Klein’s On Fire, I was left feeling slightly unsatisfied and wanted a more robust book on the Green New Deal.…
5 reasons why a Green New Deal and Universal Basic Income go hand in hand
There has been much discussion in political circles and indeed the wider press over the last year about a Green New Deal after media savvy Americans like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes revived…
This new think tank has radical ideas for transforming our economy
Image Credit: Chris Saltmarsh A new radical think tank has launched with the backing of leading politicians and social movement campaigners. Common Wealth aims to develop new models of democratic…
We need a fairer, feminist tax system
Image credit: Creative Commons: Howard Lake On Saturday the 6th of April higher earners in the country will benefit from a major tax reduction as both the personal tax-free earnings…