I read Angrynomics by Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth over the weekend, and note that Larry Elliot commented on it in The Guardian earlier this
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How to take power
I was asked during the talk that I gave to an Australian conference this morning how I imagined that society could take the power to
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The Green New Deal and wealth taxes: my talk to Australian Progress this morning
I am speaking as part of the Australian Progress conference this morning (literally now, 6am) on the Green New Deal and the need for wealth
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There is one thing you need to understand about today’s public debt figures – and that is that public debt has not increased
The Office for National Statistics has just issued new public debt statistics. The headlines will be all about the issues that they highlight in their
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For the sake of the planet Goldman Sachs has to lose
The opposition of the financial services sector to things like the Green New Deal is becoming ever more apparent. As the FT has reported this
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We need an Opposition completely committed to full employment that isn’t frightened of the cost of delivering it. When are we going to get it?
I took part in a discussion with a group of economists yesterday. There is nothing unusual about that. The sombre term of the discussion was,
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Inflation is not the issue we need to worry about: deflation
As the Guardian has reported: Official figures showed the annual growth rate in consumer prices slowed to 0.5% in May as oil prices tumbled, the
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Are climate NGOs really going to let another crisis go to waste?
A group called The Climate Coalition (about whose work, funding and staff it is remarkably quiet on its own website, I have to say with
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Funding a green transition is not an issue – my letter with Caroline Lucas in the Guardian
The Guardian published this letter from Caroline Lucas MP and me last night: Your editorial (9 June) rightly calls for the post-coronavirus economy to be
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