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Visionaries: Ann Pettifor
Ecologist
1st April 2009
Ann Pettifor has changed the world once; now she wants to do it again.more...
Struggling for Éire
Molly Scott Cato
11th May, 2009
If it is not to be choked by debt and taxes, Ireland must return to the self-sufficient, localised vision of one of its founding fathers more...
Iceland's economic meltdown: a lesson from the frontline of global finance
Molly Scott Cato
4th March, 2009
The world has watched the vertiginous collapse of the Icelandic economy in recent months with a mixture of fascination and horror. more...
Economy distorted by multimillion pound bonuses
Nick Robins
28th January, 2009
Everyone loves a good bonus. None more so than the thousands of financiers across the globe who enjoyed ‘stonking’ payments in 2006. more...
An end to monopoly money
Molly Scott Cato and Martin Large
1st November, 2008
Creating cash should not be the responsibility of the private banking system, but of the common wealth. Let’s get mutual, urge Molly Scott Cato and Martin Large more...
Don't believe the hype
Stephen Hale
1st October, 2008
The current economic downturn is hard, but it’s also filled with opportunities to remake the world in a more sustainable way, says Stephen Halemore...
A steady-state economy
Herman Daly
1st April, 2008
Economist Herman E Daly argues that our future depends on a new economic model, one that needs to be defined by the dynamic balance – the steady state – of the natural world upon which it depends. more...
The Ecologist's 'Real Green Budget'
Mark Anslow
23rd March, 2007
Environmentalists had waited with baited breath for the Chancellor's 2007 Budget. Gordon Brown had intimated that it would be the 'greenest ever'. In fact, it was a resounding disappointment. more...
Milton Friedman: Architect of Neoliberalism RIP
Paul Kingsnorth
1st December, 2006
Death is rarely something to be celebrated, but I can’t say I shed a tear last week when I heard that Milton Friedman, the father of neoliberal economics, had gone to the great free market in the sky. more...
Backing the Bad Guys
Noreena Hertz
1st December, 2004
As the world’s poorest countries sink further and further into debt, Western corporations grow fat from government-backed projects that fuel conflicts, harm the environment and have built-in kickbacks.more...
Health NHS exposed
Solomon Hughes
1st April, 2004
In 1993 Tory MP David Willetts wrote a pamphlet called The Opportunities for Private Funding in the NHS, which proposed using Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs) and other commercial mechanisms to provide health services in the UK. Conservative ministers thought Willetts’s proposals too radical. They were consigned to the shelf until 1997, when the New Labour Government put them into action. more...
An Illusion of Progress
Kirkpatrick Sale
1st July, 2003
Our sick society and stupid economics are dragging the planet to the edge of apocalypse. Earth’s survival depends on a completely new way of thinking. By Kirkpatrick Sale more...
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