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Category Archives: economics
Notes for the New Year from Plague Island
Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, by Viktor Vasnetsov. Painted in 1887. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Today, in the UK we live on a plague island (with some of the highest rates of Covid infections and deaths, globally), politically isolated from … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, ecology, economics, politics
Tagged climate change, ecology, economy, Labour Party, national politics, overshoot, pancrisis, Tory government
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Things I’ve written lately, mostly elsewhere.
I’m rather aware that I’ve been neglecting this blog lately. It’s not because I’ve been inactive, the opposite, in fact. So here is a list of the most important things I’ve written over the last year and a bit. “Properly” … Continue reading
What’s gone wrong in Venezuela?
What’s gone wrong in Venezuela? Mark H Burton1 pdf version [Update, 3 Feb, 2019: Some additional recent English language sources appear at the end – not in the pdf version yet.] This piece is intended as a guide to what’s … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Latin America
Tagged 21st Century socialism, Latin America, Venezuela
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Could Labour implement a post-growth economy?
Here is the full version of the article published, in rather truncated form today, on Left Foot Forward. I will be posting a fully referenced extended version in the near future. pdf version of the full text Could Labour implement … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, ecology, economics, ideology
Tagged climate change, degrowth, ecology, economic growth, Labour Party, politics, steady state economics
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After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version
Here is the revised version of my working paper, “After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge“. I’m grateful to those who have offered encouragement and constructively critical comments. This new version, Has numerous improvements to the text and further references to … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, ecology, economics, policy
Tagged 21st Century malaise, Bolton, climate change, degrowth, ecology, economy, imperialism, limits to growth, Manchester, Marxism, peak capitalism, permaculture, the mess we're in
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After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge.
Note: there is now a revised version. See this later post. This is my new working paper. It attempts to deal with the question of peak capitalism and ecological crisis on two levels – the post-industrial wastelands of the core … Continue reading
Labour again: Corbyn’s victory and the growth narrative
This is a short post to note Corbyn’s victory in the Labour leadership re-election and ask some fundamental questions. Despite some misgivings in the last post, I’m delighted. This is all about rejecting the politics and economics of the last … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, economics, ideology, politics
Tagged climate change, degrowth, ecology, economic growth, economy, Labour Party, socialism
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Progress as a trap.
Craig Bennett is the Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth UK. Last night (11/2/2016) he gave a lecture at Manchester Business School, “What is Progress: how are we doing and where next?” It was an interesting topic for a … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, economics, thinkers
Tagged buen vivir, climate change, coloniality, degrowth, ecology, economic growth, economy, vivir bien
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Corbynomics: let’s be sceptical about the growth rhetoric.
“So all our emphasis and work and campaigning is about an expanding economy and investing in an expanding economy” Jeremy Corbyn, quoted by The Independent, 29 February 2016 “El socialismo puede llegar sólo en bicicleta.” Socialism can only arrive by … Continue reading
Jeremy Corbyn and the double struggle
Jeremy Corbyn‘s campaign for the Labour leadership is about doing things differently, about re-discovering the basic Labour values of social and economic justice, but in a way that harnesses the knowledge, commitment and energy of the many, in the changed … Continue reading
Posted in economics, politics
Tagged degrowth, ecology, economy, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, neoliberalism
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