I was a signatory to this letter in the Guardian, and have made my own sons aware of my views: We, the undersigned academics, stand
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The Green New Dealers
This is most of the Green New Deal Group, this week: In the front, Jeremy Leggett and Ann Pettifor. In the back, from left, Andrew
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Accountancy is failing the modern economy: it’s time for reform
I admit that I thought that being in at the start of one social movement was a career achievement. And something not to be repeated.
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Where’s the debt?
I was talking with someone who was pretty familiar with his employer’s pension fund yesterday, and who also knows a bit about the economy. He
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The ‘economists’ have lost control of climate change
I was amused by this in an Economist editorial: [T]he criticism of the economic approach to climate change implicit in the Green New Deal is not
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Why do the Big 4 accountants survive?
I was asked very recently why it was that the big 4 firms of accountants survive. This is an issue I have been considering with
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The Brexit downturn has arrived
This is a summary from the ONS of the quarterly GDP data for the UK to December 2018: It could be that the UK is heading
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The price of meltdown
I took myself by surprise yesterday. One of my sons and I have been attending an event in early April for a number of years. It’s on this
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