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Category Archives: economics
After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge.
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 capitalist countries and the global exhaustion and toxicity of capitalism as … 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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Politics as action research? Corbyn, People’s QE, and Syriza.
Politics as action research? Corbyn, People’s QE, and Syriza. These brief thoughts have been triggered by the Jeremy Corbyn campaign to be Labour Party leader, and by Syriza’s negotiations with the Troika. First Labour. There is a lot being written … Continue reading
Malmö: re-imagining the city
Our cities have grown up as the result of a number of factors. Manchester, with its origins in the Roman period, was a relatively small centre until particular geographical, historical, social and economic factors coincided to make it the world’s … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, economics, travel
Tagged cities, ecology, economy, Malmö, Manchester, Sweden
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Economics is for Everyone: Paul Mason – a quick reaction – Post-Crash Economics Society
Economics is for Everyone: Paul Mason – a quick reaction – Post-Crash Economics Society. I wrote this reaction to Paul Mason’s talk in Manchester on request from the Post-Crash people following some comments I made on the talk via twitter. … Continue reading
Posted in economics, politics
Tagged climate change, economy, energy, Manchester, neoliberalism, Paul Mason, post-crash economics society
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A new approach for our cities?
Originally posted on Steady State Manchester:
I attended a two hour seminar on Future Climate organised by the North West Climate Change Partnership It was a rather depressing affair since it seems quite clear that we are rushing headlong towards…
Posted in ecology, economics
Tagged cities, climate change, degrowth, Manchester, Steady State Manchester
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Hubble, bubble, double struggle: the coming elections.
Hubble, bubble, double struggle: the coming elections. I’ve been meaning to write something on the elections for a while. But this is not so much about the elections as about the approaches on offer. Which elections anyway? My main focus … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, economics, politics
Tagged degrowth, elections, Green Party, Labour, Latin America, Podemos, politics, Syriza, the mess we're in, vivir bien
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