Since 2008 one of the continuing themes of the Green New Deal Group has been that we have a fossil fuel crisis, one of the
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Will Hutton gets that without printing money the crisis facing our economy is off the economic Richter scale. Why can’t others?
Will Hutton is not most left-wingers’ idea of a left-wing economist these days. But in The Observer today he suggests that the programme required to
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The old and new economic orders
This came out of some discussions I had yesterday. It summarises where I am on green economics, the Green New Deal and MMT about as
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The decline in GDP is shocking: what we do not need though is to go back to the old normal
Today’s reported decline in GDP from the ONS. Click on the chart to see the animation. While we were making today's GDP chart we were
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Principles for post-Covid Britain: an agenda we can all share
I am a signatory to this statement, published yesterday in The Ecologist. I also had involvement in its drafting, although I am not an author.
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The government’s response to the climate crisis is to spend a little spare cash on cycling and walking and to set up a working party
This written answer has just been published by the House of Commons: Asked by Caroline Lucas (Brighton, Pavilion) Asked on: 20 May 2020 Department for Business,
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Mark Carney’s plan for climate change financial disclosure ignores most emissions a company creates and that makes it unfit for use
There is an article by the likes of Andrew Bailey, current Governor of the Bank of England, and Mark Carney, his predecessor in The Guardian
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The costs of economic growth
I was giving a talk (on zoom, of course) on the Green New Deal last night and was discussing just how long I have been
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Greening the economy is not a peripheral project: it may be the biggest economic project we’ve ever tackled
I worry that the scale of the green stimulus that our economy requires is misunderstood. Business Green has reported that: [A new report from WWF]
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