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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The stranded asset write downs begin
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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