The world has watched the vertiginous collapse of the Icelandic economy in recent months with a mixture of fascination and horror.
… meltdown: a lesson from the frontline of global finance Molly Scott Cato | 4th March … Comment Iceland Economy Economics Finance Global Market Recession JObs Finance Globalisation Politics And Economics Society …
The creation of a new and neutral currency unit linked to the environment would stabilise the economy and reduce CO<sub>2</sub>.
… exciting than a recycling of the same old globalisation mantras. Trade is not included … the fearful reactions of the corporate globalisers to the clear indication that … past 30 years or so. The implications for the global atmosphere of transporting goods …
The IPCC's latest report makes a stark contrast with Osborne's recent budget, writes Molly Scott Cato. It was all about sacrificing our future for short term benefit - when as the IPCC makes clear, what we need is the precise opposite.
… fact that climate change is a threat to all global communities and that we need a response … discounting explains our inability as a global community to deal seriously with the … the consequences of 2°C or 3°C increases in global temperatures. And how selfish they …
Tim Jackson's latest book Post Growth: Life After Capitalism is 'written almost as much in poetry as in prose'.
… in prose'. The multiple crises impacting the global community are leading people to ask … of the jungle’ became the defining myth of globalized capitalism when 19th-century …
Taxation - including a carbon tax - can incentivise the transition to a low carbon economy, while reducing inequality and supporting vital services.
… end of profit-shifting tax avoidance by the global monopolies. Unsurprisingly, the Green … that such a carbon tax is adopted on a global basis and combined with the carbon …
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
… Ireland Economy Banks Finance Free Trade Globalisation Privatisation Politics And … neocolonial bandwagon of the financialised global economy. The Celtic tiger is now under … with the vision to replace their vulnerable, globalised economy with a self-reliant, …
This budget season, and so a short perambulation around the vexed question of the national debt seems in order. As a nation we've been living with debt for more the 300 years now, since 1694 to be precise, when Scottish privateer William Paterson persuaded the government of the time that creating £1.2 million of IOUs would get them out of their spending difficulties.
… money system is vital to develop a democratic global society: it would go a long way towards …