I was pleased to see the Guardian reporting that: Labour is drawing up ambitious proposals to rescue the post-coronavirus economy with a radical green recovery plan
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Why we should democratise work
I was one of more than 3,000 signatories to this article in the Guardian and elsewhere this morning, originally published by Democratising Work: Working humans
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The Green New Deal will tackle both the social and climate crises that will follow on from coronavirus
My Green New Deal colleague, Colin Hines, had this letter in the Guardian today: Oxford University’s call for a green stimulus for the economy and Polly Toynbee’s
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Question of to the day: what to call an economics that embraces MMT?
Jo Wilson made this comment this comment on the blog this morning when discussing how to communicate economic ideas: Find a way to communicate what MMT actually
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First they ignore you…then Oxford University says you were right all along
The Guardian has reported that Oxford University has published a report supporting what is, in effect, exactly what the Green New Deal has been calling
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Question of the day: should we be issuing perpetual bonds to fund the Green New Deal?
George Soros recently made an interesting, and potentially controversial, call for the European Union to issue what are called perpetual bonds. Perpetual bonds are unusual
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Local authority bonds are back, and anyone who believes in local democracy should welcome that
As the FT has reported this morning: Cash-strapped UK local authorities are to group together for the first time to raise hundreds of million of
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Falling dividends make clear the folly of saving in the stock market to fund pensions
The Financial Times has reported this morning that: Royal Dutch Shell has cut its dividend for the first time since the second world war as
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Video of the Economics of Green Recovery
This tweet features a video from the event I did on Monday night which I think is worth sharing. It may have been 6.35pm in
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