As if to prove the relevance of what Danny Blanchflower and I are calling for in the Mile End Road Economists’ initiative, this academic journal
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Gatwick airport plans to carry on as if the world is not burning all around us
It was a touch depressing to read this in the FT today: Gatwick airport is to push ahead with expansion despite the hit to the
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It is time we had joined up economic policy, and independent central banking hooked on QE is not good for that
In 2010 I wrote this in a paper co-authored with Colin Hines on what we thought should be the future of quantitative easing: More than
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What I think XR should be saying about capitalism
There were many reports yesterday on Extinction Rebellion’s (XR’s) occupation of a part of Covent Garden to protest about the role of the City of
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We need change to tackle climate change very urgently. And the Tories are determined nothing should happen.
The Tories in Scotland published this tweet in response to the new SNP -Green political partnership. Our vital North Sea sector is under threat from
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Will accountants save the world?
Aviva Investors have begun promoting an interview I did with them: The discussion focuses on my work on sustainable cost accounting. The full article is
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Who are the real extremists?
There are some stories in the media so surreal that you have to doubt the collective sanity of a society that requires that they be
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Maybe there is merit in keeping it simple after all
It feels like we are living through history at the moment. I am not just referring to the collapse of US power in Afghanistan, although
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How green is the hydrogen the UK’s planning?
As the Guardian reports this morning: About 3 million households in the UK could begin using low-carbon hydrogen to heat their homes and cook rather
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